Measuring connectivity in linear multivariate processes: Definitions, interpretation, and practical analysis

Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine

Volumn 2012, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Faes, Luca ^a   Erla, Silvia ^a   Nollo, Giandomenico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY ESTIMATION;

DIRECTED COHERENCES; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; INFORMATION TRANSFERS; MULTIVARIATE PROCESS; PARAMETRIC REPRESENTATIONS; PARTIAL COHERENCE; PARTIAL DIRECTED COHERENCE; PRACTICAL RECOMMENDATION;

FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DECOMPOSITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED PHOTOACOUSTIC SPECTROSCOPY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LINEAR MULTIVARIATE PROCESS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOTOR CORTEX; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; OSCILLATION; PARIETAL LOBE; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; SPECTROMETRY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FEEDBACK; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION; BIOSTATISTICS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMAN; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TIME;

BIOSTATISTICS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84862289308     PISSN: 1748670X     EISSN: 17486718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2012/140513     Document Type: Article

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