The significance threshold for coherence when using the Welch's periodogram method: Effect of overlapping segments

Biomedical Signal Processing and Control

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 405-409

  Gallet, Clément ^a,b   Julien, Claude ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Coherence; Confidence limit; Overlapping; Significance threshold; Welch's periodogram

Indexed keywords

BLOOD PRESSURE; COHERENT LIGHT; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

CONFIDENCE LIMIT; KOLMOGOROV-SMIRNOV TEST; OVERLAPPING; PERIODOGRAMS; SIGNIFICANCE THRESHOLD; STATISTICAL DIFFERENCES; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; THEORETICAL EXPRESSION;

TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; HEART RATE; HUMAN; KOLMOGOROV SMIRNOV TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TECHNIQUE; WELCH PERIODOGRAM;

EID: 80052441557     PISSN: 17468094     EISSN: 17468108     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bspc.2010.11.004     Document Type: Article

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