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ArticleArXiv2026

Bits per Spike as a Betting Game: An interpretable unit for held-out log-likelihood in neural data analysis.

Alex H Williams

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Article in ArXiv, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Alex H WilliamsCenter for Neural Science, New York University.

Funding

Unified, Scalable, and Reproducible Neurostatistical SoftwareRF1MH133778 · NIMH · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY · PI LINDERMAN, SCOTT WARREN, WILLIAMS, ALEXANDER HENRY · 2023 to 2023
$2.2M
NIMH NIH HHS RF1 MH133778
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Held-out log-likelihood is the standard currency for comparing statistical models of neural spike trains, and is often reported as

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anytime-valid inferencebits per spikee-valuesgame-theoretic statisticsgeneralized linear modelsheld-out log-likelihoodspike trains

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PMID42620016
PMCPMC13484423

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