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  A flexible Bayesian framework for unbiased estimation of timescales

Zeraati, R., Engel, T., & Levina, A. (2022). A flexible Bayesian framework for unbiased estimation of timescales. Nature Computational Science, 2(3), 193-204. doi:10.1038/s43588-022-00214-3.

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Zeraati, R1, Author           
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1Department of Computational Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society, ou_3017468              

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 Abstract: Timescales characterize the pace of change for many dynamic processes in nature. They are usually estimated by fitting the exponential decay of data autocorrelation in the time or frequency domain. Here we show that this standard procedure often fails to recover the correct timescales due to a statistical bias arising from the finite sample size. We develop an alternative approach to estimate timescales by fitting the sample autocorrelation or power spectrum with a generative model based on a mixture of Ornstein–Uhlenbeck processes using adaptive approximate Bayesian computations. Our method accounts for finite sample size and noise in data and returns a posterior distribution of timescales that quantifies the estimation uncertainty and can be used for model selection. We demonstrate the accuracy of our method on synthetic data and illustrate its application to recordings from the primate cortex. We provide a customizable Python package that implements our framework via different generative models suitable for diverse applications.

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 Dates: 2022-03
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 Identifiers: DOI: 10.1038/s43588-022-00214-3
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Title: Nature Computational Science
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Publ. Info: London, UK : Nature Research
Pages: - Volume / Issue: 2 (3) Sequence Number: - Start / End Page: 193 - 204 Identifier: ISSN: 2662-8457
CoNE: https://pure.mpg.de/cone/journals/resource/2662-8457