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A complete introduction and discussion of independent component analysis. Builds on previous tutorial on principal component analysis. Version 1.0
A full introduction, description, derivation, and discussion of principal component analysis. Concrete examples for intuition building, the mathematical relation to SVD, and new extensions of this algorithm. Version 3.01
A light discussion of the underlying assumptions behind entropy followed by a rigorous but simple derivation of the formula for entropy. Version 1.0
An intuitive discussion about where Kullback-Leibler divergence arises and its relationship to likelihood theory. Version 1.0
An introduction to the application of GLMs to model neurons and networks of neurons. Brief discussion and derivation of primary equations pertaining to maximum likelihood estimation. Version 1.5 Publications
Functional connectivity in the retina at the resolution of photoreceptors
Nature 2010: 467, 673-677. [ PDF ] [ supplement ] [ news & views ]
Correlated firing among major ganglion cell types in primate retina
Journal of Physiology, 2010, Oct 11. [ PDF ]
The structure of large-scale synchronized firing in primate retina
Journal of Neuroscience, 2009: 29, 5022-5031 . [ PDF ]
High sensitivity rod photoreceptor input to blue-yellow color opponent pathway in primate retina
Nature Neuroscience, 2009 12, 1150. [ PDF ]
Receptive fields in primate retina are coordinated to sample visual space more uniformly
PLoS Biology, 2009 7, e63. [ PDF ]
Uniform signal redundancy of parasol and midget ganglion cells in primate retina
Journal of Neuroscience, 2009: 29,4675-4680 . [ PDF ]
Synchronized firing in the retina
Current Opinions in Neurobiology, 2008: 16, 396-402 . [ PDF ]
Spatiotemporal correlations and visual signaling in a complete neuronal population
Nature, 2008: 454:995-999 . [ PDF ]
Estimating information rates in neural spike trains with confidence intervals
Neural Computation, 2007: 19, 1683-1719 . [ PDF ]
Spatial properties and functional organization of small bistratifed cells in primate retina
Journal of Neuroscience, 2007: 270 13261 . [ PDF ]
Identification and characterization of a Y-like primate retinal ganglion cell type
Journal of Neuroscience, 2007: 27) 11019 . [ PDF ]
The structure of multi-neuron firing patterns in primate retina
Journal of Neuroscience, 2006: 26, 8254-8266 . [ PDF ]
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Estimating entropy rates with Bayesian confidence intervals
Neural Computation, 2005: 17, 1531-1576 . [ PDF ]