Time Series Methods in Biological and Medical Data Analysis

Abstract

This paper describes how time-series methods such as the recursive instrumental variable estimation procedure can be used to aid the analysis of biological and medical data obtained during transport experiments on the circulatory systems of both man and plants. The simplicity of the stochastic approach used contrasts with the conventional deterministic procedure based on regularisation. The proposed method appears to have applications in many areas of science and could lead to advances in the design of experiments for the collection and analysis of biological and medical data.