A kernel-based calculation of information on a metric space

DOI10.3390/E15104540MaRDI QIDQ280658zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors R. Joshua Tobin, Conor Houghton

Publication date 10 May 2016

Published in Entropy (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.4572

zbMATH Keywords

kernel density estimationmutual informationmetric spacesneuroscienceelectrophysiology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measures of information, entropy (94A17)

Abstract: Kernel density estimation is a technique for approximating probability distributions. Here, it is applied to the calculation of mutual information on a metric space. This is motivated by the problem in neuroscience of calculating the mutual information between stimuli and spiking responses; the space of these responses is a metric space. It is shown that kernel density estimation on a metric space resembles the k-nearest-neighbor approach. This approach is applied to a toy dataset designed to mimic electrophysiological data.

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