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low resting hr users lost hrv because the acf1 gate mistook breathing near nyquist for jitter. at hr in the 40s a normal breathing rate lands ~0.4 cycles/beat, which pushes the successive-diff acf1 way below -0.35 on a clean night, so rmssd was refused every night and readiness never got its hrv input.

now when acf1 fails we also check the beat-indexed spectrum: if a flat noise floor explains less than 70% of the successive-diff power it's a respiratory line, not jitter, and rmssd publishes (still at floor confidence). white noise, beat-time jitter and strict alternation all stay refused. one shared check for hrvTime, nocturnal and sleep-session rmssd.

the exemption is strict: the line has to stand clear of the floor, no hump on nyquist, and on nocturnal / sleep-session every 5-min window that feeds the headline has to clear the gate on its own. on real slow-heart nights that still leaves most of them refused, so this is a partial fix for that case, not the end of it.

edge needs a kAlgoVersion bump + analytics repin after this merges.

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Distinguish respiratory variability near the Nyquist frequency from timing jitter so valid low-heart-rate RMSSD can contribute to HRV readiness metrics.

New Features:

  • Allow RMSSD to publish for low-heart-rate respiratory patterns that fall below the successive-difference ACF1 threshold when spectral evidence supports genuine breathing-related variability.

Bug Fixes:

  • Prevent clean slow-heart nights from being incorrectly rejected as jitter while continuing to refuse white noise, beat-time jitter, alternation, coarse timing grids, and run-edge artifacts.

Enhancements:

  • Apply a shared spectral jitter verdict across time-domain, nocturnal, and sleep-session HRV metrics, with stricter independent validation for each headline window and confidence retained at the appropriate floor for exempted results.

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  • Add coverage for slow-heart respiratory activity, jitter and alternation rejection, fragmented and burst artifacts, coarse-grid timing, and preservation of normal-heart-rate RSA behavior.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved RMSSD and pNN50 availability decisions for patterns that may resemble jitter or noise.
    • RMSSD remains available for qualifying slow-heart and normal-heart respiratory patterns when the signal meets the updated checks.
    • Nocturnal and session-windowed RMSSD remain available for qualifying slow-heart respiratory patterns.
    • RMSSD results continue to be withheld for patterns associated with beat-time jitter, strict alternation, or noisy, fragmented data.

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The change estimates successive-difference noise share and applies a shared ACF1-and-noise-share refusal rule to hrvTime, nocturnalRmssd, and sleepSessionWindowedRmssd. Tests cover RSA, white noise, beat-time jitter, alternation, and fragmented runs.

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HRV jitter refusal

Layer / File(s) Summary
Noise estimate and refusal rule
lib/src/onehz/clinical/hrv_time.dart
Adds a spectral estimate of difference noise share and a shared rule that combines it with the ACF1 threshold.
RMSSD API integration and validation
lib/src/onehz/clinical/hrv_time.dart, test/onehz/clinical_test.dart
Applies the shared rule to three RMSSD APIs. Tests cover RSA, white noise, beat-time jitter, strict and phase-slipping alternation, fragmented noise, and run-edge artifacts.

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Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 3b409

The change makes the RMSSD quality gate keep low-ACF1 respiratory arrhythmia while still refusing jitter-dominated input. No concrete merge-blocking issue was identified. The author notes that Edge needs a kAlgoVersion bump and analytics repin after merge.

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The change affects metric availability rather than permissions or data access. Conservative rejection and floor confidence remain in place for the newly eligible signals. No security concern was established in the reviewed paths, but downstream deployment coordination and broader exposure remain unverified.

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  • inferred — Within the inspected production paths, caller-supplied physiological series influence metric availability and numeric outputs. The changed computation does not grant identity, credential, tenant, or storage authority; broader production reachability is not established by these excerpts.

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  • observed — The routed test entrypoints construct deterministic synthetic inputs and exercise existing package APIs. They do not introduce a production attacker-controlled input path or bypass the metric refusal rule.

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  • observed — The exception remains a signal-quality control, not authentication. Insufficient spectral coverage, zero energy, near-Nyquist peaks, excessive Nyquist power, and insufficient peak prominence return no verdict, which preserves refusal when ACF1 fails.

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  • observed — The new estimator reads supplied runs and mutates only locally allocated buffers and accumulators. It introduces no shared-state ownership transfer or persistent multi-step transition requiring rollback or recovery.
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The PR augments the ACF1-based RMSSD jitter gate with a Welch-spectrum noise-share check, allowing low-heart-rate respiratory lines while continuing to reject noise and alternation, and applies the shared verdict consistently across HRV time, nocturnal, and sleep-session metrics with focused regression tests.

Flow diagram for the RMSSD jitter gate

flowchart TD
    A[Compute successive-difference ACF1] --> B{ACF1 below kNnDiffAcf1Floor?}
    B -->|No| C[Publish RMSSD]
    B -->|Yes| D[nnDiffNoiseShare]
    D --> E{Valid spectrum verdict?}
    E -->|Respiratory line and share below 0.7| C
    E -->|White noise, timing jitter, or Nyquist alternation| F[Refuse RMSSD]
    E -->|Insufficient segments or no verdict| F
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Add a beat-indexed spectral fallback to distinguish respiratory RSA from timing jitter when the successive-difference ACF1 gate fails.
  • Compute a Welch spectrum over the 0.15–0.5 cycles/beat band and estimate the white-noise share from its median floor.
  • Accept low-ACF1 data only when the estimated noise share is below 70%; return no verdict for insufficient segments or near-Nyquist peaks.
  • Keep white noise, beat-time jitter, and strict alternation refused, with accepted respiratory cases publishing at floor confidence.
lib/src/onehz/clinical/hrv_time.dart
Route all RMSSD-producing paths through one shared jitter-refusal decision.
  • Replace direct ACF1 threshold checks in hrvTime, nocturnalRmssd, and sleepSessionWindowedRmssd.
  • Preserve refusal notes while safely handling the shared predicate's null ACF1 result.
lib/src/onehz/clinical/hrv_time.dart
Add regression coverage for respiratory, jitter, alternation, and normal-HR behavior.
  • Verify slow-heart RSA is published across all three RMSSD paths despite ACF1 below the threshold.
  • Verify white noise, beat-time jitter, and Nyquist alternation remain refused.
  • Verify normal-HR RSA bypasses the spectral fallback and retains existing RMSSD behavior.
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