A simple indicator of nonstationarity of firing rate in spike trains

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 163, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 181-187

  Gourévitch, Boris ^a   Eggermont, Jos J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anderson Darling; Interspike intervals; Nonstationarity; Spike trains

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MANN KENDALL TEST; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SPIKE WAVE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL CONCEPTS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEURONS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 34247534557     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2007.02.021     Document Type: Article

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