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While most of these methods indicate a \u201cmore awake\u201d patient with age, the permutation entropy (PeEn) has been proposed as an age-independent measure. In this article, we show that PeEn is also influenced by age, independent of parameter settings.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>We retrospectively analyzed the EEG of more than 300 patients, recorded during steady state anesthesia without stimulation, and calculated the PeEn for different embedding dimensions m that was applied to the EEG filtered to a wide variety of frequency ranges. We constructed linear models to evaluate the relationship between age and PeEn. To compare our results to published studies, we also performed a stepwise dichotomization and used non-parametric tests and effect sizes for pairwise comparisons.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>We found a significant influence of age on PeEn for all settings except for narrow band EEG activity. The analysis of the dichotomized data also revealed significant differences between old and young patients for the PeEn settings used in published studies.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>Based on our findings, we could show the influence of age on PeEn. This result was independent of parameter, sample rate, and filter settings. 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