Interpretable Classification of Categorical Time Series Using the Spectral Envelope and Optimal Scalings.
Zeda Li, Scott A. Bruce, Tian Fang Cai · PubMed · 2022
, to categories that optimally emphasize oscillations at each frequency. Our procedure combines these two quantities to produce an interpretable and parsimonious feature-based classifier that can be used to accurately determine group membership for categorical time series. Classification consistency of the proposed method is investigated, and simulation studies are used to demonstrate accuracy in classifying categorical time series with various underlying group structures. Finally, we use the proposed method to explore key differences in oscillatory patterns of sleep stage time series for patients with different sleep disorders and accurately classify patients accordingly. The code for implementing the proposed method is available at https://github.com/zedali16/envsca.