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A nonparametric Bayesian model for estimating spectral densities of resting‐state EEG twin data

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  • Brian Hart
  • Michele Guindani
  • Stephen Malone
  • Mark Fiecas

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Electroencephalography (EEG) is a noninvasive neuroimaging modality that captures electrical brain activity many times per second. We seek to estimate power spectra from EEG data that ware gathered for 557 adolescent twin pairs through the Minnesota Twin Family Study (MTFS). Typically, spectral analysis methods treat time series from each subject separately, and independent spectral densities are fit to each time series. Since the EEG data were collected on twins, it is reasonable to assume that the time series have similar underlying characteristics, so borrowing information across subjects can significantly improve estimation. We propose a Nested Bernstein Dirichlet prior model to estimate the power spectrum of the EEG signal for each subject by smoothing periodograms within and across subjects while requiring minimal user input to tuning parameters. Furthermore, we leverage the MTFS twin study design to estimate the heritability of EEG power spectra with the hopes of establishing new endophenotypes. Through simulation studies designed to mimic the MTFS, we show our method out‐performs a set of other popular methods.

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  • Brian Hart & Michele Guindani & Stephen Malone & Mark Fiecas, 2022. "A nonparametric Bayesian model for estimating spectral densities of resting‐state EEG twin data," Biometrics, The International Biometric Society, vol. 78(1), pages 313-323, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:biomet:v:78:y:2022:i:1:p:313-323
    DOI: 10.1111/biom.13393
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