A three-state biological point process model and its parameter estimation

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 2698-2707

  Tong Zhou, G ^a   Schafer, William R ^a   Schafer, Ronald W ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological system modeling; Parameter estimation; Point process

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; NEUROLOGY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BIOLOGICAL POINT PROCESS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EGG-LAYING PATTERNS;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 0032186969     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/78.720372     Document Type: Article

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