Maximum likelihood estimation of a stochastic integrate-and-fire neural encoding model

Neural Computation

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2533-2561

  Paninski, Liam ^a,b   Pillow, Jonathan W ^a   Simoncelli, Eero P ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOPHYSICS; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NERVE CELL; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REVIEW; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; BIOPHYSICS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEURONS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 9744239998     PISSN: 08997667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/0899766042321797     Document Type: Review

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