The meaning and measurement of physiologic variability?

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 677-678

  Webber Jr , Charles L ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Approximate entropy; Complexity; Nondeterministic systems; Nonlinear dynamics; Recurrence quantification analysis

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; DATA ANALYSIS; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; ENTROPY; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 14944382945     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000155772.47288.EC     Document Type: Editorial

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