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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Lung. 2014 Jun 19;192(5):765–773. doi: 10.1007/s00408-014-9608-3

Table 3.

Spectral and spectro-temporal parameters as a function of age, gender, weight, and height as extracted using the complete recordings

Fitted regression line Lower/upper limits of normal (±1.64 σ)
Respiratory rate 44.97 + 0.46 × age – 0.196 × height – 0.260 × weight ±37.00
Heart rate 118.63 − 3.45 × age + 0.277 × height – 1.842 × weight +320.54
MFCC1 3.97 + 0.050 × age + 0.013 × height – 0.024 × weight ±0.23
MFCC2 −0.24 + 0.074 × age + 0.004 × height – 0.009 × weight ±0.14
MFCC3 0.69 + 0.015 × age + 0.006 × height – 0.013 × weight ±0.05
Spectral width (PW) 220.64 – 0.67 × age − 0.892 × height + 1.23 × weight ±3,588.45
Spectral slope (SL) −7.11 – 0.013 × age − 0.043 × height + 0.05 × weight ±1.15
Power ratio (PR) 0.99 + 0.002 × age − 0.000023 × height – 0.000041 × weight +5.93 × 10−5
Power of regression line (PLN) 3844.61 + 30.72 × age + 89.11 × height – 144.06 × weight +3.96 × 106