An examination of the Runs Test, Reverse Arrangements Test, and modified Reverse Arrangements Test for assessing surface EMG signal stationarity

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 156, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 242-248

  Beck, Travis W ^a   Housh, Terry J ^a   Weir, Joseph P ^b   Cramer, Joel T ^c   Vardaxis, Vassilios ^b   Johnson, Glen O ^a   Coburn, Jared W ^d   Malek, Moh H ^a   Mielke, Michelle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b DES MOINES UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromyography; Fourier transform; Stationarity

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONCENTRIC MUSCLE CONTRACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; HUMAN; MODIFIED REVERSE ARRANGEMENTS TEST; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; REVERSE ARRANGEMENTS TEST; RUN TEST; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WAVEFORM;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FOREARM; HUMANS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE;

EID: 33747197474     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2006.03.011     Document Type: Article

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