sh {seewave}R Documentation

Spectral entropy

Description

This function computes the entropy of a frequency spectrum.

Usage

sh(spec)

Arguments

spec a data set resulting of a spectral analysis obtained with spec or meanspec (not in dB).

Details

Spectral entropy is calculated according to:

S = -sum(ylogy)/log(N)

with:
y = relative amplitude of the i frequency,
and

sum(y) = 1


and N = number of frequencies.

Value

A single value varying between 0 and 1 is returned. The value has no unit.

Note

The spectral entropy of a noisy signal will tend towards 1 whereas the spectral entropy of a pure tone signal will tend towards 0.

Author(s)

Jerome Sueur sueur@mnhn.fr

References

Nunes, R. R., Almeida de, M. P. & Sleigh, J. W. 2004 Spectral entropy: a new method for anesthetic adequacy. Revista Brasileira de Anestesiologia, 54, 413-422.

See Also

csh,th, H, sfm

Examples

a<-synth(f=8000,d=1,cf=2000,plot=FALSE)
speca<-spec(a,f=8000,at=0.5,plot=FALSE)
sh(speca)
# [1] 0.2336412
b<-noise(d=1,f=8000)
specb<-spec(b,f=8000,at=0.5,plot=FALSE)
sh(specb)
# close to 1

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