A comparison of multivariate causality based measures of effective connectivity

Computers in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1132-1141

  Wu, Meng Hung ^a   Frye, Richard E ^b   Zouridakis, George ^c  

^a South Texas College   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Autoregressive models; Connectivity measures; Directed transfer function; Dynamic autoregressive neuromagnetic causal imaging (DANCI); Granger causality; MEG; Multivariate causality; Partial directed coherence

Indexed keywords

AUTO REGRESSIVE MODELS; CONNECTIVITY MEASURES; DIRECTED TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; GRANGER CAUSALITY; MEG; MULTIVARIATE CAUSALITY; PARTIAL DIRECTED COHERENCE;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NEURAL NETWORKS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ERROR; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 82955232957     PISSN: 00104825     EISSN: 18790534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2011.06.007     Document Type: Article

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