Presence ratio (presence_ratio)

Calculation

Presence ratio is the proportion of discrete time bins in which at least one spike occurred.

\[\textrm{presence ratio} = \frac{B_s}{B_s + B_n}\]
  • \(B_s\) : number of bins in which spikes occurred.

  • \(B_n\) : number of bins in which no spikes occurred.

Expectation and use

Complete units are expected to have a presence ratio of 90% or more. Low presence ratio (close to 0) can indicate incompleteness (type II error) or highly selective firing pattern.

Example code

import spikeinterface.qualitymetrics as qm

# Make recording, sorting and wvf_extractor object for your data.

presence_ratio = qm.compute_presence_ratio(wvf_extractor)
# presence_ratio is a dict containing the units' ID as keys
# and their presence ratio (between 0 and 1) as values.

References

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