Commenges D, Pinatel F, Seal J
Comput Methods Programs Biomed. 1986 Oct;23(2):123-32. doi: 10.1016/0169-2607(86)90107-0.
A program for analysing the sequences of discharge of a single neuron is presented. This program performs the following tasks: it tests if there is a neuronal response after a stimulus, it estimates the response latency and, in the case of an experiment with a conditioned movement, it estimates the onset of the movement and gives indications about the functional role of the neuron by analysing the variances of the stimulus-response and response-movement times. The methods used have been developed by the authors and are based on the estimation of a change point. The basic methods are published elsewhere but some novelties are presented here, in particular a robust estimator of a variance ratio.