Research Article

Methodological Framework for Estimating the Correlation Dimension in HRV Signals

Table 1

Computational time of correlation sums estimated for Lorenz attractor series of different sample lengths. is the speed-up achieved and defined as , where is the time demand for a sequential algorithm and the time demand for the proposed technique based on matrix operations.

N (samples) (s) (s)

300 1086 0.9 1200
5000 50 16000
10000 300 12000