Estimation in the partially observed stochastic Morris-Lecar neuronal model with particle filter and stochastic approximation methods

Annals of Applied Statistics

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 674-702

  Ditlevsen, Susanne ^a   Samson, And Adeline ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Conductance based neuron models; Diffusions; Membrane potential; Motoneurons; Pseudo likelihood; Sequential monte carlo; Stochastic approximation expectation maximization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903790443     PISSN: 19326157     EISSN: 19417330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/14-AOAS729     Document Type: Article

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