About the Authors

Eftychios A. Pnevmatikakis

eftychios@stat.columbia.edu

Affiliation Department of Statistics and Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Keith Kelleher

Current address: Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Rebecca Chen

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Petter Saggau

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Krešimir Josić

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Liam Paninski

Affiliation Department of Statistics and Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KK RC PS KJ. Performed the experiments: KK PS. Analyzed the data: EAP KK RC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EAP KK RC KJ LP. Wrote the paper: EAP KJ LP.