ReviewTheoretical biology & medical modelling2014
Cosinor-based rhythmometry.
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402 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Meta-analysis of Diurnal Transcriptomics in Mouse Liver Reveals Low Repeatability of Rhythm Analyses.Journal of biological rhythms · 2023Pooled it
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- Improvements in sleep, weight, and eating-disorder symptoms following off-label leptin treatment in an adolescent with chronic anorexia nervosa and insomnia: a case report.Journal of eating disorders · 2026Article
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- Longitudinal digital phenotyping of activity rhythms and biological aging using commercial wearables.Nature communications · 2026Article
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- Brief, Repeated Isoflurane Anaesthesia Elicits Sex-Dependent Behavioural, Cerebrovascular and Microglial Alterations in Mice.The European journal of neuroscience · 2026Article
- Overnight Dynamics of Ventricular Cerebrospinal Fluid Amyloid-Beta, Lactate and Hypocretin in Patients With Hydrocephalus: A Pilot Study.Journal of sleep research · 2026Observational
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Abstract
A brief overview is provided of cosinor-based techniques for the analysis of time series in chronobiology. Conceived as a regression problem, the method is applicable to non-equidistant data, a major advantage. Another dividend is the feasibility of deriving confidence intervals for parameters of rhythmic components of known periods, readily drawn from the least squares procedure, stressing the importance of prior (external) information. Originally developed for the analysis of short and sparse data series, the extended cosinor has been further developed for the analysis of long time series, focusing both on rhythm detection and parameter estimation. Attention is given to the assumptions underlying the use of the cosinor and ways to determine whether they are satisfied. In particular, ways of dealing with non-stationary data are presented. Examples illustrate the use of the different cosinor-based methods, extending their application from the study of circadian rhythms to the mapping of broad time structures (chronomes).
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