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In an experiment, heart rate of participants is collected for 60 seconds (1 reading per seconds) and pupil diameter whilst performing one of three tasks. The success of the task is measured with a binary value (success/failure) indicating whether they achieved the expected result or not.

What is a good statistical model to find a correlation between two time series and the success/failure variable? I'm not trying to correlate the two time series, I'm trying to correlate both of them individually or together with the success/failure variable.

Data look like this

```

Time, HR Reading, pupil size
0, 75, 0.01
1, 78, 0.012
2, 76, 0.011
...
...
59, 98, 0.04

```

Observation for this data is true.

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As I've understood it, you basically want the probability of success depending the twao variables. In this case, a probit/logit model would be a good point to start:

$\pi_t=\alpha+\beta_1HR+\beta_2PS$

$P(y_t=1)=\Phi(\pi_t)$

with HR as the heart rate and PS as the pupil size.

Best wishes,

Richard

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  • $\begingroup$ I think probit/logit models require independent variables to be independent of each other. In this case, I have 60 reading for HR and PS per dependent variable and HR readings are correlated and dependent. $\endgroup$
    – M-T-A
    Commented Jan 16, 2018 at 15:59

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