Testing frequency-domain causality in multivariate time series

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 57, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1897-1906

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular variability; directed coherence (DC); EEG; multivariate autoregressive (MVAR) models; partial directed coherence (PDC); surrogate data

Indexed keywords

ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

ARTERIAL PRESSURES; AUTO-REGRESSIVE; BIOLOGICAL DATA; CARDIOVASCULAR VARIABILITY; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; HEALTHY HUMANS; MULTICHANNEL EEG; MULTIVARIATE AUTOREGRESSIVE; MULTIVARIATE TIME SERIES; NULL HYPOTHESIS; ORIGINAL SERIES; PARTIAL DIRECTED COHERENCE; SURROGATE DATA; TESTING FRAMEWORK; TESTING FREQUENCIES;

METADATA;

ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; BREATHING; COMPLEMENT FIXATION TEST; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; HEART CYCLE; HYPOTHESIS; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; SIMULATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; ADULT; ALGORITHM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TIME;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77954646647     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2010.2042715     Document Type: Article

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