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. 2013 Jun 4;7:72. doi: 10.3389/fncom.2013.00072

Table 3.

Activity features.

Description Definition Abbreviation
Spike times of neuron i tiτ
Spike train of neuron i si(t) = ∑τδ(ttiτ)
Number of spikes of i during the simulation ni
Inter spike intervals ISIiτ = tiτ+1tiτ
Coefficient of variation CV[i]=std(ISIτi)τISIτiτ
Mean CV 〈CV[i]〉i CV
Standard deviation of CV std(CV[i])i std(CV)
Spike count of neuron i in bin number τ of size Δ ciτ(Δ)
Highest order of detectable higher-order correlations See text HOC
Mean count correlation for small/large bin size 〈corr(ciτs,l], cjτs,l])τi≠j CCCs/l
Standard deviation of count correlation std(corr(ciτs/l], cjτs/l])τ)i≠j std(CCCs/l)
Mean spike rate nitsimi rate
Standard deviation of the rate std(nitsim)i std(rate)
Mean of rates, neurons with rate >0 nitsimi:ni>0 rate+
Standard deviation rate, neurons with rate >0 std(nitsim)i:ni>0 std(rate+)
Population activity S(t) = ∑isi(t)
Normalized power spectrum P(ω) = (|FT[S(t)]|2 − 〈S(t)〉t)/(〈S(t)〉2t tsim)
Integrated spectral power of population activity fminfmaxP(ω)dω Spec