Analysis of spike train data: Comparison between the real and the simulated data

Abstract

This paper compares the real experimental data with the data simulated by Wu and Srivastava, 2011. It turns out that the real data exhibit a different composition of the phase and the amplitude variation from the simulated data, where these two types of variation are separated using the Fisher Rao curve registration. As a result, for the real data the original functions are a better choice of data objects for path discrimination, while for the simulated data the domain warping functions are better.