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Authors: Chiying Wang 1 ; Sergio A. Alvarez 2 ; Carolina Ruiz 1 and Majaz Moonis 3

Affiliations: 1 Worcester Polytechnic Institute, United States ; 2 Boston College, United States ; 3 U. of Massachusetts Medical School, United States

Keyword(s): Markov Chain, Semi-Markov Chain, Sleep Stage Dynamics, Weibull Distribution.

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Abstract: In this paper, a semi-Markov chain of sleep stages is considered as a model of human sleep dynamics. Both sleep stage transitions and the durations of continuous bouts in each stage are taken into account. The semi-Markov chain comprises an underlying Markov chain that models the temporal sequence of sleep stages but not the timing details, together with a separate statistical model of the bout durations in each stage. The stage bout durations are modeled explicitly, by the Weibull parametric family of probability distributions. This family is found to provide good fits for the durations of waking bouts and of bouts in the NREM and REM sleep stages. A collection of 244 all-night hypnograms is used for parameter optimization of the Weibull bout duration distributions for specific stages. The Weibull semi-Markov chain model proposed in this paper improves considerably on standard Markov chain models, which force geometrically distributed (discrete exponential) stage bout durations for all stages, contradicting known experimental observations. Our results provide more realistic dynamical modeling of sleep stage dynamics that can be expected to facilitate the discovery of interesting and useful dynamical patterns in human sleep data in future work. (More)

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Wang, C.; A. Alvarez, S.; Ruiz, C. and Moonis, M. (2013). Computational Modeling of Sleep Stage Dynamics using Weibull Semi-Markov Chains. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics (BIOSTEC 2013) - HEALTHINF; ISBN 978-989-8565-37-2; ISSN 2184-4305, SciTePress, pages 122-130. DOI: 10.5220/0004252801220130

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title={Computational Modeling of Sleep Stage Dynamics using Weibull Semi-Markov Chains},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics (BIOSTEC 2013) - HEALTHINF},
year={2013},
pages={122-130},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004252801220130},
isbn={978-989-8565-37-2},
issn={2184-4305},
}

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics (BIOSTEC 2013) - HEALTHINF
TI - Computational Modeling of Sleep Stage Dynamics using Weibull Semi-Markov Chains
SN - 978-989-8565-37-2
IS - 2184-4305
AU - Wang, C.
AU - A. Alvarez, S.
AU - Ruiz, C.
AU - Moonis, M.
PY - 2013
SP - 122
EP - 130
DO - 10.5220/0004252801220130
PB - SciTePress