Time Series Modeling of Neuroscience Data

"With more statisticians working in the direction of methodological and theoretical research with applications in the neurosciences, the present book is timely. The author is an expert statistician who has made significant contributions to the area of time series and stochastic processes, in addition to methodological developments … The book is impressive in terms of the breadth of its coverage of the models and the in-depth discussion on the theoretical properties of both discrete-time and continuous-time that are specific to neuroscience data … the numerous examples on constructing the state-space representation of the time series models were useful, as properly constructing state-space models can be challenging. Moreover, the numerous discussions on the computational challenges for estimating the parameters of state-space models were illuminating."
—Journal of the American Statistical Association, December 2014

"This is a very unusual book on time series, with much that is new, innovative , and usually not found in other books on time series, for example multivariate AR models, multivariate dynamic models, causal analysis and the Doob decomposition, and so on. Among the major pleasures of browsing through the book are the acquaintance with ‘Laplace’s Demon’, seeing Pearsonian and multimodal distributions as stationary distributions for dynamic models, Einstein’s inductive use of Boltzmann entropy—to mention just a few of the novelties. But the hard core of the book is about state space modeling and its application to neuroscience data. The pages 331 through 351 are a richly textured but precise and detailed introduction to state space modeling. Here is a lovely summary by Ozaki that I have not seen elsewhere—it deals with time series dynamics …"
—Jayanta K. Ghosh, International Statistical Review (2013), 81

"This book is essential for every quantitative scientist who is interested in developing rigorous statistical models for analyzing brain signals. It is written by an expert statistician who has made significant contributions to the area of time series and stochastic processes. … His expertise on this subject and interest on the deep issues of statistical modeling of brain signals are clearly reflected in the character of this book. This book builds an important foundation for neurostatistics … it is truly unique in its treatment of the topic because it has an eye towards modeling brain signals, such as electroencephalograms and functional magnetic resonance images, and thus builds on the specifics that are directly relevant to these particular data. … At the University of California, Irvine, researchers have used this book recently and found it to be very helpful. Moreover, I intend to use this book as the primary text for a special topic course on neurostatistics in the Department of Statistics."
—Hernando Ombao, Journal of Time Series Analysis, 2013