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. 2013 Dec 13;8(12):e83529. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0083529

Table 1. Description of call parameters used in the statistical analysis of distress vocalization during squeezing (S-calls) and during isolation (I-calls).

Acoustic parameters Description Included in the statistical analysis
S-calls I-calls
Duration [ms] Time between onset and offset of call Yes Yes
DFA2 mean [Hz] Mean value of the frequency at which the second quartile of global energy is reached across all time segments Yes Yes
DFA3 mean [Hz] Mean value of the frequency at which the third quartile of global energy is reached across all time segments Yes Yes
PF max [Hz] Maximum frequency of the frequencies with the highest amplitude across all time segments Yes Yes
PF mean [Hz] Mean of the frequencies with the highest amplitude across all time segments Yes Yes
DFB1 start[Hz] Start value of the first frequency in the call that contains more energy than a particular threshold across all time segments Yes Yes
DFB1 mean [Hz] Mean value of the first frequency in the call that contains more energy than a particular threshold across all time segments Yes Yes
DFB1 mod [Hz] Mean difference between original DFB course and an average course Yes No
F0 mean [Hz] Mean value of the fundamental frequency across tonal time segments No Yes
Noisy parts [%] Percent of time segments in which no harmonic structure can be detected No Yes