Luna is a C/C++ library focused on the analysis of large numbers of sleep studies, such as those available from the NSRR. Luna is completely open-source and not dependent on proprietary software. If you're interested in analyzing sleep signals from the NSRR, you might want to start by looking at Luna. Currently, there is a command-line tool (lunaC) and an extension library for R (lunaR). Keep reading

Visualizing data is almost always useful, but this can be difficult when you have a lot of complex data. This is where dimension reduction techniques can play an important role. As described here, we applied one such technique to sleep EEG spectra from over 16,000 individuals in the NSRR, to get a feel for some of the sources of individual differences (both physiological and artefactual) in these data. Keep reading

Many analyses of sleep EEG data are effectively agnostic to the polarity of the EEG signal. That is, you could flip the signal (i.e. multiply every sample value by -1) and still obtain equivalent results, e.g. from most spectral analyses. For certain analyses that consider the phase of a signal, however, it will in fact matter that the polarity of the signal is correct. Keep reading