Table 1:
Percentage of Patients with Improved Model Fit for Gamma Distribution | Percentage of Patients with Diurnal Variation Meeting Significance Criteria | ||||
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Sample | AIC | AICC | BIC | GLM: Normal Distribution | GZLM: Gamma Distribution |
Number of Patients | |||||
Heart rate every 5 sec | 70% | 70% | 70% | 100% | 100% |
N=56 | |||||
Heart rate Hourly | 63% | 63% | 63% | 89% | 91% |
N=56 | |||||
Actigraphy every 30 sec | 100% | 100% | 100% | 94% | 100% |
N=32 | |||||
Actigraphy, Hourly | 78% | 78% | 78% | 44% | 47% |
N=32 | |||||
Urinary aMT6s | 78% | 78% | 78% | 83% | 89% |
N=18 |
Abbreviations: AIC, Akaike Information Criteria without correction for small sample sizes; AICC, Akaike Information Criteria with correction for small sample sizes aMT6s, 6-sulfatoxymelatonin; BIC, Bayesian Information Criteria; sec, seconds; GLM, general linear model with normal distribution; GZLM, generalized linear model with gamma distribution.