Table 3.
Discriminant analysis using the Mahalanobis metric.
Mean Mahalanobis Distance Between Neonates at 40-41 Week and the Pittsburgh Controls using Complexity Measures.
| Approximate Entropy | Sample Entropy | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SSC | Non-SSC | Non-SSC | ||
| Neonate Number | Full term | Preterm | Full term | Preterm |
| 1 | 4.33 | 5.47 | 3.07 | 4.20 |
| 2 | 2.90 | 3.27 | 2.12 | 2.57 |
| 3 | 2.22 | 3.45 | 1.71 | 2.75 |
| 4 | 2.73 | 4.50 | 2.13 | 3.65 |
| 5 | 2.85 | 4.71 | 2.27 | 3.94 |
| 6 | 2.64 | 3.53 | 2.10 | 2.90 |
| 7 | 2.49 | 4.64 | 1.95 | 3.72 |
| 8 | 2.96 | 4.67 | 2.23 | 3.81 |
| Mean Distance | 2.90 | 4.32 | 2.20 | 3.48 |
| Standard Dev. | 0.59 | 0.74 | 0.37 | 0.58 |