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How Vitality Tracker computes what it shows you

Articles answer why. Method notes answer how we compute: one engine, its inputs, its sources, its limits and its version. Each note is published with a version line, a cite-as line and a CC BY 4.0 notice, and the full sleep specification is deposited on Zenodo with the external review that changed it.

Method note · Sleep Health Indexv1.0 · 8 Oct 2026 · 9 min

How Vitality Tracker scores sleep

Sleep scored as a habit, not a night: a rolling 28-night index from five components weighted by evidence and effect size. Regularity carries the most weight; sleep stages carry none, and the note says why.

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Full specification
Vitality Tracker Sleep Scoring Methodology, Open Specification v2.0.1, public edition (8 October 2026): every weight, every curve, every limitation and the external review that changed it. Novak Consulting Ltd, CC BY 4.0.
doi:10.5281/zenodo.23223863 ↗

Any change to a formula, parameter or input rule bumps the version, is logged with its reason and recomputes history with both values kept. Text is licensed CC BY 4.0; the engines' code is not covered by the license.

Vitality Tracker describes and tracks physiological measures recorded by your own consumer devices against your own history. It does not diagnose, predict or monitor any disease.

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