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Epileptic seizures have been studied in the past years where different non-linear statistical approaches have been employed to understand the relationship between the EEG signal and the epileptic discharge. One of the most widely used method for to analyse long memory processes is the detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA). However, no objective and pragmatic methods have been developed to detect crossover points and reference channels in DFA.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>In this article, we propose: (i) two automatic approaches that successfully detect crossover points in DFA related methods on the log\u2013log plot and (ii) a criteria to choose the reference channel for the log-amplitude function. Moreover, the DFA is applied to EEG signals of 10 epileptic patients collected from the CHB-MIT database, being the log-amplitude function used to compare the different brain hemispheres by making use of the methodology proposed in the article. The existence of long-range power-law correlations is demonstrated and indicates that the EEG signals of epileptic patients present three well-defined regions with the first region showing a 1\/f noise (pink noise) for seven subjects and a random walk behaviour for three subjects. The second and third regions show anti-persistence behaviour. Moreover, the results of the log-amplitude function were divided in two groups: the first, including seven subjects, where the increase in the scales results in an increase in the fluctuation in the frontal channels and the second, included three subjects, where the fluctuation for large scales are greater for the parietal channels.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Availability and implementation<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>The functions used in this article are available in the R package DFA (Mesquita et al., 2020).<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Supplementary information<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btaa955","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,10,29]],"date-time":"2020-10-29T20:12:34Z","timestamp":1604002354000},"page":"1278-1284","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":17,"title":["Detection of crossover points in detrended fluctuation analysis: an application to EEG signals of patients with epilepsy"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"37","author":[{"given":"Victor Barreto","family":"Mesquita","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Statistics, Federal University of Bahia , Salvador 40170-290, Brazil"}]},{"given":"Flor\u00eancio Mendes","family":"Oliveira Filho","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mathematics, Federal Institute of Bahia , Salvador 40110-150, Brazil"},{"name":"Department of Computational Engineering, SENAI CIMATEC, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil"}]},{"given":"Paulo Canas","family":"Rodrigues","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Statistics, Federal University of Bahia , Salvador 40170-290, Brazil"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,11,24]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023051706053966500_btaa955-B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"i10","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btm210","article-title":"Multiway analysis of epilepsy tensors","volume":"23","author":"Acar","year":"2007","journal-title":"Bioinformatics"},{"key":"2023051706053966500_btaa955-B2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2645","DOI":"10.1016\/j.eneco.2008.05.006","article-title":"Short-term predictability of crude oil markets: a detrended fluctuation analysis approach","volume":"30","author":"Alvarez-Ramirez","year":"2008","journal-title":"Energy Econ"},{"key":"2023051706053966500_btaa955-B3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"381","DOI":"10.1103\/PhysRevLett.59.381","article-title":"Self-organized criticality: an explanation of the 1\/f noise","volume":"59","author":"Bak","year":"1987","journal-title":"Phys. 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