Estimating a distribution's central moments: a specific tidal ventilation application
- 1 January 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physiological Society in Journal of Applied Physiology
- Vol. 46 (1) , 47-52
- https://doi.org/10.1152/jappl.1979.46.1.47
Abstract
A method is presented for extracting central moments of a distribution from data generated by the distribution over a known kernel. It is applied to the problem of the specific tidal ventilation in the lung in the multiple-breath N2-washout setting, and we found that in estimating the mean and variance, the method accurately recovers from test data those values characteristic of a test distribution. Some preliminary results on normal subjects are shown.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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