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Science 12 October 1962:
Vol. 138. no. 3537, pp. 141 - 142
DOI: 10.1126/science.138.3537.141
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Application of a Time Series Statistic to Physiology and Psychology

P. Herbert Leiderman 1 and David Shapiro 1

1 Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Boston

A statistic describing variability for continuously collected timeordered data with changing mean level is presented. The Mean Square Successive Difference, developed by von Neumann, was employed in the analysis of basal levels of galvanic skin potential recorded for 40-minute periods.


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