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Why: rsaRespRate read the beat-rate Nyquist off span/(n−1). Across dropouts and rejected beats that is the beat interval divided by coverage. Below 48/HR coverage (87 % at 55 bpm, 80 % at 60) a resolvable night was withheld whole as an "alias", with a note stating a heart rate the user never had. Edge's own two-device golden fixture shows it: a 60 bpm night reads "beat rate 45.08 bpm … withheld" while its 30-min BRV bins resolve 12.27 br/min.

What changed:

  • Both ceilings (whole input and per sub-window) use the median NN, the real beat interval (DeBoer, Karemaker & Strackee 1984).
  • A sub-window needs Σ NN ≥ 80 % of its length, judged before the beat count; failing that it is counted as gappy and named in the note. Lomb–Scargle handles the uneven sampling (Press & Rybicki 1989).
  • The alias guard stays below ~48 bpm, and its note states the true heart rate.
  • Confidence scales with usable sub-windows, with full weight at 23 (≈ 1 h of half-overlapping 300 s sub-windows). usable_subwindows / subwindows are reported.

User-visible before → after: a gappy night showed "No respiratory rate — beat rate 45 bpm …"; it now shows its rate (e.g. 12.3 br/min).

Tests:

  • A 75 %-covered 55 bpm night is within 1 br/min of its gap-free twin, for three seeds.
  • The alias note states the true HR.
  • 12 contiguous minutes publish only at ≤ 0.25 confidence, and ~33 minutes are still discounted; 12 minutes scattered over an hour stay absent and are named as gaps.
  • A sub-window full of holes counts as gappy, not as a low beat rate.
  • A 25 s dropout every 150 s pins the per-sub-window ceiling (fails if reverted).
  • All existing respiration tests pass unchanged.

Output changes: gappy nights publish a rate; true-HR alias note; confidence scales with usable sub-windows; new keys.
Requires kAlgoVersion bump (batched).

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Summary by Sourcery

Make RSA respiratory-rate estimation robust to sensor gaps without misclassifying resolvable nights as aliases.

New Features:

  • Publish RSA respiratory-rate estimates for nights with sensor gaps when sufficient clean beat coverage remains.
  • Expose usable and attempted RSA sub-window counts in respiratory-rate output.

Bug Fixes:

  • Prevent sensor dropouts and rejected beats from falsely lowering the beat-rate Nyquist and withholding otherwise resolvable nights as aliases.
  • Report the true median-based heart rate in RSA alias notes and distinguish gappy sub-windows from low-rate or sparse data.

Enhancements:

  • Use median NN intervals for whole-input and sub-window resolution limits, enforce 80% clean-time coverage, and scale confidence by usable sub-window evidence.

Documentation:

  • Update the algorithm documentation with the gap-tolerant Lomb–Scargle RSA methodology and supporting references.

Tests:

  • Add coverage for gappy nights, alias messaging, sub-window completeness, per-window Nyquist limits, confidence scaling, and reported sub-window metadata while retaining existing respiration coverage.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Improvements
    • Respiratory rate estimates from beat-to-beat data now account for missing beat intervals and use a consistent beat-rate ceiling across the full recording and analysis windows.
    • Estimates require adequate beat coverage within analysis windows. Reports distinguish coverage gaps from other reasons a rate may be unavailable.
    • Confidence reflects the number of usable analysis windows, and results can include counts of usable and attempted windows.
  • Documentation
    • Updated the respiratory-rate method description and citations.

rsaRespRate read the beat-rate Nyquist off span/(n−1). correctRr's beat
times are re-anchored to the wall clock across dropouts and advance
across rejected beats, so that ratio is the beat interval DIVIDED BY
COVERAGE: the night was withheld whole as an "alias" whenever coverage
fell below 48/HR (87 % at 55 bpm, 80 % at 60), with a note stating a
heart rate the user never had. Edge's own two-device golden fixture shows
it: a 60 bpm synthetic night with a 2 h hole reads "beat rate 45.08 bpm
resolves only to 22.5 br/min … rate withheld", while its gap-free 30-min
BRV bins all resolve 12.27 br/min. The per-sub-window ceiling had the same
flaw, and the sub-window "time-complete" test measured first-to-last span,
so two beats near the edges with a 3-minute hole between them passed it.

The Nyquist of a beat-sampled tachogram is set by the beat rate, 0.5/NN
(DeBoer, Karemaker & Strackee 1984); missing beats do not lower it. Both
ceilings now use the median NN, each value one real interval between
adjacent beats (rsaCeilingHz's argument is now named beatIntervalSec).
Gaps belong to the completeness test, which now measures coverage: a
sub-window needs Σ NN ≥ 80 % of its length, judged before the beat count
so a stretch a dropout emptied is counted as gappy, with its own reason
in the note. Lomb–Scargle
already handles the uneven sampling (Press & Rybicki 1989). The alias
guard stays: below ~48 bpm the night is still withheld, and the note now
states the true sleeping heart rate and median beat interval.

Because gappy nights now publish, a rate can rest on as few as three
sub-windows (~12 min). Confidence therefore also scales with usable
sub-windows, reaching full weight at 23: the 300 s sub-windows step by
150 s, so 23 of them are ≈ 1 h (12 would be ~33 min). A 12-minute night
that read 0.9 now reads 0.2. RespEstimate reports
usable_subwindows / subwindows so a reader can see how much of the night
the rate rests on.

Tests: a 75 %-covered 55 bpm night publishes within 1 br/min of its
gap-free twin (three seeds); the alias note states the true heart rate;
12 contiguous minutes publish at ≤ 0.25 confidence (and ~33 minutes are
still discounted) while 12 minutes scattered over an hour stay absent,
named as gaps; a sub-window full of holes is counted
as gappy, not as a low beat rate; a 25 s dropout every 150 s isolates the
per-sub-window ceiling (fails if it reverts to span/(k−1)).

Output changes: nights with dropouts or rejected beats now publish a
respiratory rate; the alias note states the true heart rate; confidence
scales with usable sub-windows; new usable_subwindows/subwindows keys.
Requires kAlgoVersion bump (batched).
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RSA respiration estimation now derives beat-rate Nyquist limits from median NN intervals rather than dropout-stretched spans, filters sub-windows by 80% beat-time coverage, and reports resolvable rates from gappy nights with confidence and metadata scaled to usable evidence.

Sequence diagram for gappy-night RSA rate publication

sequenceDiagram
    participant Input as Clean NN input
    participant RSA as rsaRespRate
    participant Windows as RSA subwindows
    participant Spectrum as LombScargle
    participant Output as RespEstimate
    Input->>RSA: median(nnMs)
    RSA->>RSA: rsaCeilingHz(beatIntervalSec)
    RSA->>Windows: evaluate 300 s overlapping windows
    Windows->>Windows: sum NN coverage
    alt coverage below 80%
        Windows-->>RSA: count gappy
    else coverage sufficient
        Windows->>Windows: median(segNn)
        Windows->>Spectrum: spectral peak from native beat times
        Spectrum-->>RSA: usable peak
    end
    RSA->>RSA: compute confidence from usable subwindows
    RSA-->>Output: RSA rate, confidence, usable_subwindows, subwindows
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Flow diagram for gap-aware RSA respiration estimation

flowchart TD
    A[Clean NN intervals and beat times] --> B[Median NN interval]
    B --> C[Whole-input Nyquist ceiling]
    A --> D[300 s overlapping sub-windows]
    D --> E{Sum NN covers at least 80%?}
    E -- No --> F[Count as gappy]
    E -- Yes --> G{At least 30 beats?}
    G -- No --> H[Count as thin]
    G -- Yes --> I[Per-window median-NN ceiling]
    I --> J[LombScargle on native beat times]
    J --> K[Usable RSA peaks]
    K --> L[Median rate and agreement gate]
    L --> M[Confidence weighted by usable subwindows]
    M --> N[RespEstimate with usable_subwindows and subwindows]
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Change Details Files
Replace gap-sensitive RSA Nyquist estimation with median NN-based ceilings and preserve Lomb–Scargle processing across uneven beat times.
  • Compute whole-input and sub-window Nyquist ceilings from median NN intervals instead of span/(n−1).
  • Apply an 80% summed-NN coverage gate before beat-count checks and classify rejected windows as gappy.
  • Keep the HF-band alias guard while reporting the true median-derived heart rate in withholding notes.
lib/src/onehz/respiration/resp_rate.dart
ALGORITHMS.md
Make RSA confidence and output metadata reflect the amount of usable evidence.
  • Scale confidence by usable sub-window count, reaching full evidence weight at 23 windows.
  • Expose usable and attempted sub-window counts in RespEstimate JSON.
  • Update insufficient-evidence notes to identify dominant causes, including sensor gaps.
lib/src/onehz/respiration/resp_rate.dart
Add regression coverage for dropout handling, alias messaging, evidence weighting, and per-window resolution limits.
  • Verify gappy 55 bpm nights remain present and agree with gap-free results across seeds.
  • Cover true-HR alias notes, contiguous versus scattered signal, gappy-window classification, and dropout-driven per-window ceilings.
  • Validate confidence thresholds and serialized sub-window metadata while retaining existing respiration tests.
test/onehz/respiration_test.dart

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RSA respiratory-rate estimation now uses median NN intervals for Nyquist ceilings and an 80% beat-coverage threshold for sub-windows. Absence explanations reflect the largest drop category. Estimates can report usable and attempted window counts, and confidence scales with usable windows.

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Layer / File(s) Summary
Median-NN ceilings and window coverage
ALGORITHMS.md, lib/src/onehz/respiration/resp_rate.dart, test/onehz/respiration_test.dart
RSA Nyquist ceilings now use median NN intervals. Sub-windows with less than 80% beat-interval coverage are dropped as gappy. Tests cover gappy recordings and median-NN ceiling behavior.
RSA absence reasons
lib/src/onehz/respiration/resp_rate.dart, test/onehz/respiration_test.dart
When too few peaks are usable, the absence explanation is selected from the largest drop category, with ties favoring the earlier category. Tests cover aliasing, sparse bursts, and coverage gaps.
Confidence and sub-window counts
lib/src/onehz/respiration/resp_rate.dart, test/onehz/respiration_test.dart
RespEstimate can include usable and attempted sub-window counts. RSA confidence scales with usable windows and reaches full evidence weight at 23 windows. Tests check confidence and serialized counts.

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Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: abdulsaheel

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Hey - I've found 3 issues

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Please address the comments from this code review:

## Individual Comments

### Comment 1
<location path="test/onehz/respiration_test.dart" line_range="321-322" />
<code_context>
+      // test (beats everywhere, holes everywhere) this is a night with too
+      // little signal in total, not a gappy one.
+      final s = gappyRsaNight(7, hours: 1, dropouts: [
+        for (var k = 0; k < 4; k++) (k * 0.25 + 0.05, k * 0.25 + 0.25)
+      ]);
+      final c = correctRr(s.rr, rrTsMs: s.t);
+      final m =
</code_context>
<issue_to_address>
**Scattered-signal test has long bursts**

When the test runs with its current dropout bounds, `RSA: 12 minutes scattered over an hour stay absent, and say why` uses four 0.20-hour bursts (12 minutes each), not four 3-minute bursts. Those bursts contain complete 300 s windows, so `expect(m.present, isFalse)` fails when the RSA estimate is correctly published.

Use bounds that leave four 3-minute bursts, then verify the intended sparse coverage in the fixture.
</issue_to_address>

### Comment 2
<location path="lib/src/onehz/respiration/resp_rate.dart" line_range="322" />
<code_context>
+            'ceiling (${round6(hiHz * 60)} br/min)'
+      ),
+      (
+        gappy,
+        '$gappy of $total ${round6(segSec)}s sub-windows had less than 80 % '
+            'of their time covered by clean beats (sensor gaps or rejected '
</code_context>
<issue_to_address>
**Gappy published rates omit gap reason**

When three or more sub-windows yield peaks while at least one other sub-window is rejected as gappy, when at least three sub-windows yield peaks despite other windows being gappy, the gappy reason is only formatted in the `peaks.length < 3` branch; the success note reports the usable count but not the gappy count or cause. Callers receive a rate without the gap explanation the PR says the note provides.

Include the gappy count and reason in the successful estimate's note when gappy sub-windows were rejected.
</issue_to_address>

### Comment 3
<location path="test/onehz/respiration_test.dart" line_range="367-368" />
<code_context>
+          rsaRespRate(c.nn, c.nnTimesMs, artifactFraction: 1 - c.cleanFraction);
+      expect(m.present, isTrue, reason: m.note);
+      expect(m.value!.brpm!, closeTo(15.0, 1.0));
+      expect(m.value!.subwindows, 46);
+      expect(m.value!.usableSubwindows, 46,
+          reason: 'every sub-window is ≥ 80 % covered and resolvable');
+    });
</code_context>
<issue_to_address>
**Per-window ceiling regression goes undetected**

When the per-sub-window Nyquist check is removed, `RSA: a sub-window's own ceiling comes from its median beat interval` checks only that the result is present and that 46 windows are counted as usable. Removing the per-window Nyquist guard still produces the 15 br/min peak and those counts, so the test passes without the behavior it is meant to protect.

Make the test fail when that check is removed, for example by asserting the computed per-window ceiling or by checking a case where an invalid peak would otherwise be accepted.
</issue_to_address>

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- Line 319: Update the absence note’s ceiling reporting so it reflects the
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Comment thread lib/src/onehz/respiration/resp_rate.dart Outdated
When sub-windows were rejected for peaking at their resolvable ceiling,
the absence note printed the whole input's ceiling. Each sub-window's
ceiling follows its own heart rate, so across a night the number shown
could match none of them. The note now reports the range of the
ceilings the rejected sub-windows actually had.

Tests: a night whose heart rate drops below the HF band for its last
stretch now fails if the per-sub-window ceiling check is removed (the
existing ceiling test still passed without it). The scattered-bursts
fixture now asserts it really is four ~3-minute bursts, ~12 min of beats.
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