DETECTION OF RATE CHANGES IN PERIODIC PHENOMENA,

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to show with what probability differences between numbers of observed events within a pair of time intervals may be ascribed to specified changes in rate of a periodic phenomenon. In the example given above it might be required to say with what probability the observed difference of (25 - 10) = 15 events might be ascribed to an actual rate change of 0, 5, 10, 12, etc., events per interval. Such measures are valid for the class of phenomena, such as human heart rate, for which magnitude of rate change is relatively unrelated to base rate (Kaelbling, King, Achenbach, Branson, and Pasamanick (1960), Avner (1964)).

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1964
Accession Number
AD0609698

Entities

People

  • R. A. Avner

Organizations

  • University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Heart Rate
  • Intervals
  • Military Research
  • Probability
  • Scientific Research
  • Time Intervals

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science / Meteorology, specifically Wind Wave Turbulence.
  • Brain and Cognitive Science; Experimental Psychology; Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Regression Analysis.