An explanation of the distribution of inter-seizure intervals
Neurons and Cognition
2015-05-18 v2 Probability
Biological Physics
Abstract
Recently Osorio et al (Eur. J. Neurosci., 30 (2009) 1554) reported that probability distribution of intervals between successive epileptic seizures follows a power law with exponent 1.5. We theoretically explain this finding by modeling epileptic activity as a branching process, which we in turn approximate by a random walk. We confirm the theoretical conclusion by numerical simulation.
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@article{arxiv.1004.3598,
title = {An explanation of the distribution of inter-seizure intervals},
author = {M. V. Simkin and V. P. Roychowdhury},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1004.3598},
year = {2015}
}