Assessing causal interactions among cardiovascular variability series through a time-domain Granger causality approach

Methods in Brain Connectivity Inference through Multivariate Time Series Analysis

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 223-242

  Porta, Alberto ^a   Takahashi, Anielle C M ^b   Catai, Aparecida M ^b   Montano, Nicola ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

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