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. 2016 Nov 22;7:557. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2016.00557

Table 2.

HRV indices calculated in HRVanalysis program.

Analysis type
Index Unit Entire Day/Night Selected area Along time Arround events Sequencial epoch
TEMPORAL
Mean RR ms x x x x x x
Mean frequency bpm x x x x x x
NN20 n x x x x
pNN20 % x x x x
NN30 n x x x x
pNN30 % x x x x
NN50 n x x x x
pNN50 % x x x x
SDNN ms x x x x
rMSSD ms x x x x
SDANN ms x x
SDNNIDX ms x x
GEOMETRICAL
Triangular Index x x x x
TINN ms x x x x
X ms x x x x
Y n x x x x
M ms x x x x
N ms x x x x
FREQUENCY
Ptot ms2/Hz x 5 min x x
ULF ms2/Hz x
VLF ms2/Hz x 5 min x x
LF ms2/Hz x 5 min x x
HF ms2/Hz x 5 min x x
LF/HF 5 min x x
LFnu % 5 min x x
HFnu % 5 min x x
EMPIRICAL MODE DECOMPOSITION
pLF1 5 min 5 min x x
pLF2 5 min 5 min x x
pHF1 5 min 5 min x x
pHF2 5 min 5 min x x
IMAI1 5 min 5 min x x
IMAI2 5 min 5 min x x
WAVELET
Ptot ms2/Hz x
ULF ms2/Hz
VLF ms2/Hz x
LF ms2/Hz x x
HF ms2/Hz x x
LF/HF x x
LFnu % x x
HFnu % x x
POINCARÉ PLOT
Centroïd ms x x x x
SD1 ms x x x x
SD2 ms x x x x
SD1/SD2 x x x x
SD1nu % x x x x
SD2nu % x x x x
FRACTAL
α1DFA 5000 beats 5000 beats x x
α2DFA 5000 beats 5000 beats x x
HDFA 5000 beats 5000 beats x x
Hurst 5000 beats 5000 beats x x
HHiguchi 5000 beats 5000 beats x x
HKatz 5000 beats 5000 beats x x
1/f slope x x x x
MOMENTS
Skewness 5000 beats 5000 beats x x
Kurtosis 5000 beats 5000 beats x x
Largest Lyapunov exponent x x
ENTROPY
Approximate entropy 1000 beats 1000 beats x x
Sample entropy 1000 beats 1000 beats x x
Shanon Entropy (SE) 300 beats 300 beats x x
Conditional Entropy (CE) 300 beats 300 beats x x
Corrected CE (CCE) 300 beats 300 beats x x
Normalized CCE (NCCE) 300 beats 300 beats x x
ρ 300 beats 300 beats x x
Lempel-Ziv complexity 1000 beats 1000 beats x x
TURBULENCE
VPC n x
Turbulenve onset % x
Turbulence slope ms/nRR x
DC/AC
Acceleration capacity ms x
Deceleration capacity ms x
SYMBOLIC DYNAMIC
0V 300 beats 300 beats x x
0V% 300 beats 300 beats x x
1V 300 beats 300 beats x x
1V% 300 beats 300 beats x x
2LV 300 beats 300 beats x x
2LV% 300 beats 300 beats x x
2UV 300 beats 300 beats x x
2UV% 300 beats 300 beats x x
MP 300 beats 300 beats x x
MP% 300 beats 300 beats x x

When specified, the value of several indices is calculated as the mean of the successive epochs of indicated length (time duration or number of beats).