Nonconvergence in logistic and poisson models for neural spiking

Neural Computation

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1231-1244

  Zhao, Mengyuan ^a   Iyengar, Satish ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SOFTWARE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77953338745     PISSN: 08997667     EISSN: 1530888X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/neco.2010.03-09-982     Document Type: Article

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