Dimensionality Reduction of Large-Scale Neural Recordings
Dimensionality Reduction of Large-Scale Neural Recordings
In this lesson, you will learn about methods for dimensionality reduction of data, with a focus on factor analysis.
Topics covered in this lesson
- Large noisy multi-channel datasets from new methods of large scale neural recording.
- Covariation among channels.
- Can we summarize the data using a smaller number of variables? Binning and resolution.
- Dimensionality reduction.
- Denoising.
- Dimensionality reduction models: principal component analysis (PCA), factor analysis (FA), Gaussian-process factor analysis (GPFA), latent dynamical systems, non-linear systems.
- Explicit noise models.
- Closer explanation of factor analysis, with computations.
Prerequisites
- Linear algebra (matrices)
- Some basic statistics (probability and conditional probability)
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