The problematic cosinor

We set off the severe deficiences of the simple cosinor method. It doesn't take error's correlation and sampling conditions into consideration. Consequently, the obtained statistical results are often misleading. This method, exclusively used by chronobiologists, should generally be avoide...

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Published inPathologie biologie (Paris) Vol. 44; no. 3; p. 201
Main Author De Prins, J
Format Journal Article
LanguageFrench
Published France 01.03.1996
Subjects
Data Interpretation, Statistical
Humans
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Summary:We set off the severe deficiences of the simple cosinor method. It doesn't take error's correlation and sampling conditions into consideration. Consequently, the obtained statistical results are often misleading. This method, exclusively used by chronobiologists, should generally be avoided. References are given, containing information on adequate data processing [7, 13, 18].
ISSN:0369-8114
1768-3114