A fractal approach to dynamic inference and distribution analysis

Frontiers in Physiology

Volumn 4 JAN, Issue , 2013, Pages

  van Rooij, Marieke M J W ^a   Nash, Bertha A ^a   Rajaraman, Srinivasan ^a   Holden, John G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive performance; Distribution analysis; Dynamic systems; Fractal analysis; Response time distributions; Scaling relations

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KERNEL METHOD; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 84874752907     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664042X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2013.00001     Document Type: Article

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