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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Aug 6.
Published in final edited form as: Sleep Med. 2022 Feb 8;92:1–3. doi: 10.1016/j.sleep.2022.01.015

Table 1:

Model fit and detection of diurnal variation in circadian phase markers

Percentage of Patients with Improved Model Fit for Gamma Distribution Percentage of Patients with Diurnal Variation Meeting Significance Criteria
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.