The Problem of Thresholding in Small-World Network Analysis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Langer, Nicolas ^a,b,c   Pedroni, Andreas ^d   Jäncke, Lutz ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^e International Normal Aging and Plasticity Imaging Center INAPIC   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84871882776     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053199     Document Type: Article

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