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<div class="">I have never in my life considered that people would be so creative as to expect meaningful results when inputting the function with logarithmically spaced frequency bins. I should have known better, but I would be strongly in favour of checking
for equidistant frequency bins, and if not: throw an error<b class="">. </b>I am opposed to using ‘bins’ as a unit, because FieldTrip should work wherever possible with physical units, rather than with unit-less units.</div>
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<div class="">On 02 Mar 2016, at 13:13, Hähnke, Daniel <<a href="mailto:daniel.haehnke@tum.de" class="">daniel.haehnke@tum.de</a>> wrote:</div>
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since only a few people seem to be using the PSI, I went into the code to see what it actually does. I would like to point out that there are some issues with the current implementation if you’re using logarithmically spaced frequency axes.<br class="">
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The parameter cfg.bandwidth (in Hz) is used to calculate the number of frequency bins that is used to calculate the PSI. This calculation, however, is only done once using the frequency from the lowest frequency bin. If the chosen bandwidth is not an integer
multiple of a frequency bin step, this computation leads to a changed bandwidth.<br class="">
If your frequency axis is not evenly spaced this leads to various bandwidths across the frequency axis, since the code only uses a fixed number of frequency bins across which to compute the PSI.<br class="">
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I think it would be useful to change the cfg.bandwidth input from Hz to number of bins. Also, people should be aware of the fact that the PSI value is correlated with the bandwidth. So, if you use a logarithmically spaced frequency axis, you should normalize
your PSI values by the bandwidth corresponding to each frequency bin.<br class="">
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<blockquote type="cite" class="">On 01.03.2016, at 11:51, Hähnke, Daniel <<a href="mailto:daniel.haehnke@tum.de" class="">daniel.haehnke@tum.de</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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Dear FieldTrip users,<br class="">
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I currently want to double-check the results I got from a non-parametric Granger-causality analysis with another measure of directed communication, phase slope index.<br class="">
However, after having read Nolte et al.’s paper from 2008 that introduced the PSI, I still don’t understand how to best choose the parameter cfg.bandwidth.
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I tried out different values and got something qualitatively very similar to my Granger results. But this is rather fitting the parameter to the Granger results and kind of undermines my purpose of double-checking.<br class="">
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Furthermore, I am using a logarithmic (to base 2) frequency axis. Consequently, my frequency bins are not evenly spaced. I have the feeling that I would rather need different bandwidths for the individual frequency bins.<br class="">
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Does anyone know how to objectively choose the bandwidth parameter?<br class="">
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Daniel<br class="">
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Daniel Hähnke<br class="">
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Email: <a href="mailto:daniel.haehnke@tum.de" class="">daniel.haehnke@tum.de</a><br class="">
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