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Semi-automated Optical Heartbeat Analysis of Small Hearts
Published on: September 16, 2009
Normal heartbeat series are nonchaotic, nonlinear, and multifractal: new evidence from semiparametric and parametric
Richard T Baillie1, Aydin A Cecen, Cahit Erkal
1Departments of Economics and Finance, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA.
Abstract:
We present new evidence that normal heartbeat series are nonchaotic, nonlinear, and multifractal. In addition to considering the largest Lyapunov exponent and the correlation dimension, the results of the parametric and semiparametric estimation of the long memory parameter (long-range dependence) unambiguously reveal that the underlying process is nonstationary, multifractal, and has strong nonlinearity.
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