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Multiplicatively modulated exponential autoregressive model for corticomuscular functional coupling. (English) Zbl 1151.62354

Summary: An exponential autoregressive model representing the time-varying interaction between variables within the frequency domain is proposed. As opposed to earlier models, the exogenous variables are included into the autoregressive coefficients multiplicatively in order to modulate the fluctuation characteristics of the data. We have called this model the multiplicatively modulated exponential autoregressive (mmExpAR) model. In our present research, we apply the model to the study of corticomuscular functional coupling, which can be evaluated by the relationship between an electrocorticogram (ECoG) and an electromyogram (EMG) time series. In contrast with conventional time-series models, the proposed model reflects the data-generated structure of the system, with which the ECoG fluctuation modulates the EMG fluctuation. Because such a relationship is usually discussed within a physiological framework of information transfer for each individual neuron, the present modeling approach has the advantage of being able to use real data such as the summation of postsynaptic potentials and the population of action potentials of neuromuscular units.

MSC:

62P10 Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis
62M10 Time series, auto-correlation, regression, etc. in statistics (GARCH)
92C30 Physiology (general)
92C55 Biomedical imaging and signal processing
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