Is it a correct definition of PLV?

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Is it a correct definition of PLV? #8305

Closed dahaiyu closed 4 years ago

dahaiyu commented 4 years ago

In the following page, I found the PLV definition is given as follows: PLV = |E[Sxy/|Sxy|]|. It is different from the definition in the reference. Are these two equivalent?

https://mne.tools/stable/generated/mne.connectivity.spectral_connectivity.html?highlight=spectral_connectivity#mne.connectivity.spectral_connectivity

reference: Lachaux et al. “Measuring phase synchrony in brain signals” Human brain mapping, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 194-208, Jan. 1999.

agramfort commented 4 years ago

yes it is equilavent

agramfort commented 4 years ago

This appears to be a question about usage, not a bug report or a new feature request. Please use the MNE mailing list or the gitter channel for usage questions.