isi.spearman.rank.corr: Returns Spearman's rank correlation coefficient of ISI. The...

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Returns Spearman's rank correlation coefficient of ISI. The spike train is split into chunks and the result is a mean of coefficients calculated per each chunk.

Description

The coefficient measures monotonicity of ISI, and is calculated according to formula: rho = n / (n - 1) * sum_i=1^i=n-1 (r_i - mean(r)) * (r_i+1 - mean(r)) / sum_i=1^i=n (r_i - mean(r)^2) where r_i is a rank order of ISI i, equal ISI ranks are assigned average rank

Usage

isi.spearman.rank.corr(spike.train, chunk.length = 100)

Arguments

spike.train

vector of spike times

chunk.length

length for chunks used for computation

Value

Spearman's rank correlation coefficient or 0 if not enough spikes


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