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. 2015 Mar 6;5:8808. doi: 10.1038/srep08808

Table 1. Description of acoustic variables used in the analysis. Asterisks mark the acoustic variables used to estimate the vocal clusters.

Acoustic feature Description
Duration [ms] * Time between onset and offset of call
Amplitude gap [ms] * Duration of breaks in amplitude within call
PF start [Hz] * Start frequency of peak frequency
PF mean [Hz] Mean frequency of peak frequency
PF max [Hz] * Maximum peak frequency
PF max loc * Location of PF max in relation to total call duration [(1/duration) * loc]
PF jump [Hz] * Maximum difference of peak frequency between successive bins
PF modulation [Hz] Mean frequency differences between original PF and floating average
Slope of trend * Factor of the linear trend of the peak frequency through the peak frequencies of consecutive 0.21 ms bins
PF sharpness [Hz] Width of PF peak at 25% amplitude below the maximum amplitude peak