A comparative analysis of spectral exponent estimation techniques for 1/fβ processes with applications to the analysis of stride interval time series

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 222, Issue , 2014, Pages 118-130

  Schaefer, Alexander ^a   Brach, Jennifer S ^b   Perera, Subashan ^c   Sejdić, Ervin ^a  

^a University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

1 f process; Detrended fluctuation analysis; Fractals; Gait; Self similarity; Stride intervals; Time series analysis; Wavelets

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; BRIDGE DETRENDED SCALED WINDOW VARIANCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETRENDED FLUCTUATION ANALYSIS; DISPERSIONAL ANALYSIS; FOOT; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; GAIT; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL LENGTH; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; STRIDE INTERVAL TIME SERIES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

1/F PROCESS; DETRENDED FLUCTUATION ANALYSIS; FRACTALS; GAIT; SELF SIMILARITY; STRIDE INTERVALS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WAVELETS;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FRACTALS; GAIT; HUMANS; LOCOMOTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME;

EID: 84888783464     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: 1872678X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2013.10.017     Document Type: Article

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