less than mininmum nr of trials reached ACT threshold criteria - to solve the problem change the ACT threshold (cfg.actthrvalue) or remove the bad channel combinations

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Open-Source MATLAB toolbox for transfer entropy estimation

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less than mininmum nr of trials reached ACT threshold criteria - to solve the problem change the ACT threshold (cfg.actthrvalue) or remove the bad channel combinations #32

Closed keshavbk closed 5 years ago

keshavbk commented 5 years ago

Hi,

I am receiving the above error.

I am an undergrad, very new to the world of computational neuroscience. I am happy to provide any other necessary information, but I'm not sure what is necessary. I am also unsure about what a bad channel combination is in the first place, so it would be great if anyone could explain that as well.

Thanks,

Keshav Kundassery Vanderbilt University BIEN Lab

pwollstadt commented 5 years ago

Hi Keshav, this means that you have too many trials with a autocorrelation decay time above the threshold set in cfg.actthrvalue. These trials get excluded from the analysis. A bad channel combination is a channel pair where the number of trials for at least one channel is too low. You may want to consider changing the actthrvalue to get more trials included. If you are happy with working in Python, you may also want to have a look at our new toolbox IDTxl. The embedding used there does not rely on the ACT for the calculation of the embedding parameters.

pwollstadt commented 5 years ago

P.S.: Since this is not an error in the code, I will close this issue. Feel free to send me an email if you have more questions or open another issue if you encounter a bug.