Procedures for Numerical Analysis of Circadian Rhythms

Overview

Journal Biol Rhythm Res

Specialty Biology

Date 2013 May 28

PMID 23710111

Citations 263

Authors

Roberto Refinetti

Germaine Corne Lissen

Franz Halberg

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Abstract

This article reviews various procedures used in the analysis of circadian rhythms at the populational, organismal, cellular and molecular levels. The procedures range from visual inspection of time plots and actograms to several mathematical methods of time series analysis. Computational steps are described in some detail, and additional bibliographic resources and computer programs are listed.

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