How to compare sleewalking activity between nights

Having established a setup to identify every sleepwalking events during a night the next step was to find a method to compare nights.
For example to be able to determine if one night was better or worse than another or to identify correlations with potential treatments of influencing factors.

So I used the following approaches to give each night 6 different "scores"

• Total number of events
• Average event length
• Average time between events
• "Behavior complexity score light" (BCSL)
• 5 level score where each level represent a defined action:
• For each level a value of 0 or 1 is attributed
• This gives each event a value ranging from 1 to 5, with a higher value for a more complex behavior. So the numerical value for that event describes how complex that behavior was.
• This score is based on pattern observed regularly during my sleepwalking and will probably have to be modified to match each sleepwalker "signature"
• "Behavior complexity score" (BCS):
• 11 level score including the 5 levels in BCSL and 6 additional repetitive behavior:
• For each level a value of 0 or 1 is attributed 
• As for BCSL the value obtained (ranging from 1 to 11) represents how complex that behavior was.
• Also as for BCSL, this score is based on pattern observed regularly during my sleepwalking and will probably have to be modified to match each sleepwalker "signature"
• "Heart rate level increase" (HLL) divided into 5 increment groups (max value observed during event compared to night average value)

 

I then used those 6 scoring methods to analyze the effect of different treatments and factors on my sleepwalking.