Assessing Causality in normal and impaired short-term cardiovascular regulation via nonlinear prediction methods

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 367, Issue 1892, 2009, Pages 1423-1440

  Nollo, Giandomenico ^a   Faes, Luca ^a   Antolini, Renzo ^a   Porta, Alberto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Global nonlinear prediction; Heart rate and arterial pressure variability; K nearest neighbours local nonlinear prediction; Neurally mediated syncope; Nonlinear granger causality; Out of sample prediction

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL NONLINEAR PREDICTION; HEART RATE AND ARTERIAL PRESSURE VARIABILITY; K-NEAREST NEIGHBOURS LOCAL NONLINEAR PREDICTION; NEURALLY MEDIATED SYNCOPE; NONLINEAR GRANGER CAUSALITY; OUT-OF-SAMPLE PREDICTION;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEART RATE; HUMAN; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYNCOPE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PRESSURE; SYNCOPE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 65549141243     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2008.0275     Document Type: Article

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