Unhealthy surprises

Dante R. Chialvo ()
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Dante R. Chialvo: the University of California at Los Angeles

Nature, 2002, vol. 419, issue 6904, 263-263

Abstract: Fluctuations in heart rate can signal disease and may prove fatal. A measurement, based on entropy, of how 'surprising' the beat irregularity is, distinguishes healthy hearts from those suffering common forms of illness.

Date: 2002
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