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. 2021 Nov 30;13:57. doi: 10.1186/s11689-021-09405-x

Table 2.

Descriptions of measures

Abbreviation Description
Nonlinear variables
NOLDS software package [49]
  Detrended fluctuation analysis DFA Long-range correlation of the physiological time series
  Sample entropy SampE Irregularity of physiological time series without self-matches
  Hurst exponent HurstE Long-term memory processes of a time series
  Lyapunov exponent LyapE Chaotic or periodic properties of a time series
EntroPy (https://github.com/raphaelvallat/entropy)
  Permutation entropy PermE Information content of a given time series based on probability distribution of a set of continuous points
  Spectral entropy SpecE Degree of skewness in the frequency distribution
  Singular value decomposition entropy SVDE Dimensionality of a time series.
  Approximate entropy AppE Regularity of times series fluctuations
  Higuchi fractal dimension HFD Self-similarity in time series using increasingly distanced samples in time
  Katz fractal dimension KFD Complexity and self-similarity in time series using consecutive time points
Lempel-Ziv complexity reference [50]
  Lempel Ziv complexity LZC Randomness of finite sequences
Linear variable
SciPy signal processing [51]
  Power Power Frequency amplitude of oscillations in a time series