Fig. 3. Analysis of robustness of MAP estimation of epileptogenic zone.
a Accuracy of the estimated EZ as the signal-to-noise ratio is increased from 0.1 to 2.5. For each SNR, n = 50 independent data sets are generated and EZ is estimated using MAP. b Accuracy of estimated EZ with MAP initialized at different values of parameters. Initial conditions are generated using a proposal distribution, which is defined such that it has the same mean as the priors of the parameters but with SD ranging from 0.1 to 1.0. At each SD, n = 50 independent samples are generated and used as initial conditions for MAP. EZ, epileptogenic zone; MAP, maximum a posteriori; SNR, signal-to-noise ratio.