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Electrophysiology Analysis, Bayesian

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Bayesian modelling of neural recordings; Bayesian neural data analysis

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Bayesian analysis of electrophysiological data refers to the statistical processing of data obtained in electrophysiological experiments (i.e., recordings of action potentials or voltage measurements with electrodes or imaging devices) which utilize methods from Bayesian statistics. Bayesian statistics is a framework for describing and modelling empirical data using the mathematical language of probability to model uncertainty. Bayesian statistics provides a principled and flexible framework for combining empirical observations with prior knowledge and for quantifying uncertainty. These features are especially useful for analysis questions in which the dataset sizes are small in comparison to the complexity of the model, which is often the case in neurophysiological data analysis.

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  1. Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics and Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Tübingen, Germany

    Dr. Jakob H. Macke

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    Dieter Jaeger

  2. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA

    Ranu Jung

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Macke, J.H. (2014). Electrophysiology Analysis, Bayesian. In: Jaeger, D., Jung, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7320-6_448-1

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    Electrophysiology Analysis, Bayesian
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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7320-6_448-2

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