Estimation of the instantaneous spike train variability
K. Rajdl,
L. Kostal
Abstract:The variability of neuronal spike trains is usually measured by the Fano factor or the co-efficient of variation of interspike intervals, but their estimation is problematic, especially with limited amount of data. In this paper we show that it is in fact possible to estimate a quantity equivalent to the Fano factor and the squared coefficient of variation based on the intervals from only one specific (random) time. This leads to two very simple but precise Fano factor estimators, that can be interpreted as es… Show more
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