system: You are John Boone, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Philosophy message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to William Elliot about "Biofuzz".

They wrote:
WE>  JB> For example if the time for one beat to the next beat is
WE>  JB> .5 seconds, P-P interval is .5 seconds, the persons heart
WE>  JB> rate is 120 beats per minute, (60/.5).
WE> I see, since the P-P interval is less than one the
WE> reciprocal transformation exaggerates the spread.  As the
WE> critical focus is zero spread, this data transform is more
WE> accurate than the simple:
WE>  JB> I am interested in Heart rate, however, one could just measure
WE>  JB> the P-P interval variability as well.
WE>  JB> IAE, make up some heart rates and plot it on a x-y
WE>  JB> graph, here are some realistic ones.  HR1=80, HR2=75, HR3=70,
WE>  JB> HR4=85, HR5=90, HR6=72, HR7=65, HR8=75, ....
WE>  JB> Point 1 is (80,75), point 2 (75,70), point 3 (70,85),
WE>  JB> point 4 (85,90), etc.
WE>   7 8 9
WE> 7  2
WE>     1
WE> 8
WE>   3
WE> 9    4
WE> Hm, it's doing more than just checking the deviation of distance(HRi'
WE> - HRi)
WE> i' = i+1.  It's checking meander.  How conceptually does
WE> this compare with the deviation of the data set HRi?
WE> There's some sort of smoothing going on?
WE>  JB> Think of a simple pendulum with the pivot point fixed.
WE>  JB> Now move the pivot point horizontal say with a certain
WE>  JB> omega, frequency.
WE> Oh a simple one dimensional oscillation?  The amplitude
WE> would slowly diminish.  As the pendulum approached center
WE> the spread area would approach zero.  No?
WE>  WE> Hm, what about fibrillation and other erratic heart
WE>  JB> Hard one for me to answer, in particular. But I can
WE>  JB> answer ventricular fibrillantion, VF.   VF does not plot
WE>  JB> out "choatic", interesting no.
WE> Is this quiescence during or before a VF attack.
WE>  JB> Of interesting note, if one looks at EEG, electro-encephalo
WE>  JB> graph, activity, brain activity, the plot becomes very
WE>  JB> non-chaotic just before a seizure, interesting no.
WE> Hm, going back to the example of the pendulum, something is
WE> coming to a standstill.  Now consider a moving marble
WE> moving around a shallow funnel.  It's spread approaches
WE> zero as it nears the center and if there's a big enuf hole
WE> in the center ...
WE>  WE> Plot domain?  The smallest rectangle with sides parallel to
WE>  WE> the axis that contains all the plotted points.
WE>  JB> Yep, the plot, even though choatic, is constrained within
WE>  JB> limits on the x,y plane.
WE> My think tank has sprung a leak. -)
WE> WE> I've heard it rumored some years ago that medical students
WE> WE> are mathematical shy.  Is that so?  Are you in medicine or
WE> WE> biology?  Are you considering a fuzzy thesis or research
WE> JB> Some are, some are not.  I was once a medical student.
WE> JB> Medicine.
WE> JB> Research while working leaving little time for research.
WE> So you're a mathematical literate doctor that would like to
WE> do research except for lacking funds?

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assistant: On 01-22-98 William Elliot wrote to John Boone...
        Hello William and thanks for writing,
   Yes and more familar for most physicians.
  You got it.
  Not sure what you what you mean by this question.
        [snip]
   Oscillation within a plane (x,y).  The plot (x,y) is the
path of the pendulum, the thing at the end of the string.
If the pendulum swings with frequency, sf, whose pivot point
moves along a line -segment- with frequency, hf, the pendulum's
path at certain hf become chaotic.
  Before, hence, the reasoning for wanting to explore it.
  Yep, and that "something" (coming to a standstill) is
variability.
  Ah, at least with the pendulum example, the plot (x,y) of
the pendulum although chaotic is within certain bounds.
  Yep.  BTW, thanks for sending me your thoughts on
logical qualifiers.  I printed it out so that I could read it
and no, I didn't try to save it to a file <grin>.
Take care,
John
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