The appropriate use of approximate entropy and sample entropy with short data sets

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 349-365

  Yentes, Jennifer M ^a   Hunt, Nathaniel ^a   Schmid, Kendra K ^b   Kaipust, Jeffrey P ^a   McGrath, Denise ^a   Stergiou, Nicholas ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Entropy; Gait; Nonlinear analysis; Step length; Step time; Step width

Indexed keywords

ENTROPY; NONLINEAR ANALYSIS;

APPROXIMATE ENTROPY; GAIT; MATHEMATICAL ALGORITHMS; PARAMETER SELECTION; RELATIVE CONSISTENCY; STEP LENGTH; STEP TIME; STEP WIDTHS;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMANS; MALE; YOUNG ADULT;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84878493700     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: 15739686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10439-012-0668-3     Document Type: Article

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