function plotfanofactor(spikes, wmin, wmax) % Compute and plot Fano factor as a function of window size. % % Arguments: % spikes: a cell array of vectors of spike times in seconds % wmin: minimum window size in seconds % wmax: maximum window size in seconds windows = logspace(log10(wmin), log10(wmax), 100); mc = zeros(1, length(windows)); vc = zeros(1, length(windows)); for k = 1:length(windows) w = windows(k); n = counts(spikes, w); mc(k) = mean(n); vc(k) = var(n); end subplot(1, 2, 1); scatter(mc, vc, 'filled'); xlabel('Mean count'); ylabel('Count variance'); subplot(1, 2, 2); scatter(1000.0*windows, vc ./ mc, 'filled'); xlabel('Window [ms]'); ylabel('Fano factor'); xlim(1000.0*[windows(1) windows(end)]) ylim([0.0 1.1]); set(gca, 'XScale', 'log'); end