A bayesian approach for inferring neuronal connectivity from calcium fluorescent imaging data

Annals of Applied Statistics

Volumn 5, Issue 2 B, 2011, Pages 1229-1261

  Mishchenko, Yuriy ^a   Vogelstein, Joshua T ^a   Paninski, Liam ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Generalized linear model; Metropolis hastings; Point process; Sequential monte carlo; Spike train data

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863861279     PISSN: 19326157     EISSN: 19417330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/09-AOAS303     Document Type: Article

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