A method for selecting the bin size of a time histogram

Neural Computation

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1503-1527

  Shimazaki, Hideaki ^a   Shinomoto, Shigeru ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; TIME FACTORS;

GRAPH THEORY;

BAR GRAPHS; BIN SIZE; EXPERIMENTAL TRIALS; HISTOGRAM METHOD; LINEGRAPH; PAUCITY OF DATA; SPIKE SEQUENCES; TIME DEPENDENT;

GRAPHIC METHODS;

EID: 34249745727     PISSN: 08997667     EISSN: 1530888X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/neco.2007.19.6.1503     Document Type: Article

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