Statistically Efficient Estimation Using Population Coding

Neural Computation

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 373-401

  Pouget, Alexandre ^a   Zhang, Kechen ^b   Deneve, Sophie ^a   Latham, Peter E ^c  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NERVE CELL; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; STATISTICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEURONS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 0032519121     PISSN: 08997667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089976698300017809     Document Type: Article

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