Chunk #23 — Materials and Methods — Experimental design and statistical analysis — Mutual information (MI) of individual neurons

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Encoding of the Intent to Drink Alcohol by the Prefrontal Cortex Is Blunted in Rats with a Family History of Excessive Drinking.

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We used base 2 for the logarithm in Equation 1 to produce MI results in units of bits. In Equation 1, the marginal discrete distributions pi,t(x) and pi,t(y) are found by summing over the other variable:(2)pi,t(x)=∑ypi,t(x,y), pi,t(y)=∑xpi,t(x,y).