TomDonoghue
commented
4 years ago At some point in the past when I did some updates I started collected some terms for this, so dropping in here.
This list is incomplete, and any definition are copied randomly from places / may not be good.
sinusoidality
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period
A single cycle of a rhythm, defined as the time between two consecutive troughs (or peaks).
rise-decay symmetry
The fraction of the period in the rise phase.
peak-trough symmetry
The fraction of the period in the peak phase.
period
The time between consecutive troughs (or peaks, if default is changed).
amplitude
Average voltage changes of the rise and decay
amplitude consistency
The amplitude consistency of a cycle is equal to the maximum relative difference between rises and
decay amplitudes across all pairs of adjacent rises and decays that include one of the flanks in the
cycle (3 pairs) (e.g. if a rise is 10mV and a decay is 7mV, then its amplitude consistency is 0.7)
period consistency
Period consistency is equal to the maximum relative difference between all pairs of adjacent periods
that include the cycle of interest (2 pairs: current + previous cycles and current + next cycles) (e.g. if the
previous, current, and next cycles have periods 60ms, 100ms, and 120ms, respectively, then the period
consistency is min (60/100, 100/120) = 0.6.))
monotonicity
The monotonicity is the fraction of samples that the instantaneous derivative (numpy.diff) is consistent with
the direction of the flank. (e.g. if in the rise, the instantaneous derivative is 90% positive, and in the decay,
the instantaneous derivative is 80% negative, then the monotonicity of the cycle would be 0.85 ((0.9+0.8)/2).
The rise and decay flanks of the cycle should be mostly monotonic. 
ryanhammonds
In FOOOF and NDSP we have glossary pages on the documentation sites that explain the key terminology and words we use.
ByCycle doesn't yet have one - but I think we should add one. Once we settle on the new 1.0 API, let's revisit and collect / define the key term we need and use across the module. We can use this issue to collect key terms and definitions, etc.