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cross-correlation

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noun

  1. statistics the correlation between two sequences of random variables in a time series

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The second pioneering tool employed was a novel application of cross-correlation to measure neuronal connectivity within a multi-electrode array system.

From Science Daily

Previous studies that looked at hydrogen in the atmosphere of KELT-9b were able to see a strong hydrogen absorption line in the spectrum without doing a more complicated cross-correlation analysis like Heng and his team had to do to find iron and titanium.

From Scientific American

Since the value of cross-correlation depended only on the ratios of the α parameters, not their magnitudes, we constrained the three parameters to the unit sphere.

From Nature

These fits are for illustration purposes; the actual model maximized the cross-correlation of PSTHs by aligning them to a linear combination of tpress, trelease, and f.

From Nature

These fits are for illustration purposes; the actual model maximized the cross-correlation of PSTHs by aligning them to a linear combination of tpress, trelease, and f.

From Nature