Amplitude Probability Distribution of Noise for Flash-Evoked Potentials and Robust Response Estimates

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn BME-33, Issue 6, 1986, Pages 579-584

  Gasser, Theo ^a   Möcks, Joachim ^a   Köhler, Walter ^b  

^a CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BIOMETRY; CHILD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; HUMAN;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BIOMETRY; CHILD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; HUMAN; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

AMPLITUDE PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION; BRAIN ACTIVITY; FLASH EVOKED POTENTIALS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; ROBUST RESPONSE ESTIMATES;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 0022732460     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.1986.325839     Document Type: Article

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