Table 1.

Summary of methods used in LH pulsatility analysis.

Method/Tool	Model	Outputs	Open-source Implementation	Reference
Deconvolution analysis	Mechanistic model	Position of pulses and pulse parameters (point estimates)	Unavailable	[8]
Cluster analysis	Statistical pattern matching	Position of pulses (point estimates)	Unavailable	[9]
DynPeak	Mechanistic model	Position of pulses (point estimates)	Python	[10]
BaSAR	Harmonic functions	Pulse frequency (posterior distribution)	R package	[11]
Bayesian Deconvolution Analysis	Mechanistic model	Position of pulses; pulse parameters (posterior distribution)	Unavailable	[13]
HormoneBayes	Mechanistic model	Model parameters; position of pulses (posterior distribution)	C++	[19]