A framework for assessing frequency domain causality in physiological time series with instantaneous effects

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 371, Issue 1997, 2013, Pages

  Faes, Luca ^a   Erla, Silvia ^a   Porta, Alberto ^b   Nollo, Giandomenico ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c FONDAZIONE BRUNO KESSLER   (Italy)

Author keywords

Directed coherence; Granger causality; Multivariate autoregressive models; Partial directed coherence

Indexed keywords

ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL TESTS; TIME SERIES;

CARDIOVASCULAR VARIABILITIES; DIRECTED COHERENCES; GRANGER CAUSALITY; MULTIVARIATE AUTOREGRESSIVE; MULTIVARIATE AUTOREGRESSIVE MODELS; PARTIAL DIRECTED COHERENCE; PHYSIOLOGICAL INTERACTIONS; SPECTRAL REPRESENTATIONS;

FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIRECTED COHERENCE; GRANGER CAUSALITY; HUMAN; MULTIVARIATE AUTOREGRESSIVE MODELS; PARTIAL DIRECTED COHERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

DIRECTED COHERENCE; GRANGER CAUSALITY; MULTIVARIATE AUTOREGRESSIVE MODELS; PARTIAL DIRECTED COHERENCE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 84880544395     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2011.0618     Document Type: Article

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