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The chapter describes particular experiments and searching for phase synchronization. The phase synchronization of chaotic system is the appearance of a certain relation between the phases of interacting systems (or between the phase of a system and that of an external force), while the amplitudes can remain chaotic and are noncorrelated. The properties of phase synchronization in chaotic systems are similar to those of synchronization in periodic noisy oscillators. Synchronization plays an important role in several neurological diseases such as epilepsies and pathological tremors. The chapter reviews the ideas and results of theoretical studies of the synchronization phenomena that are used to time series analysis. The chapter presents techniques of the bivariate data analysis and illustrates them by examples of physiological data. These examples are given in the ascending order of the …