About the Authors

Daniel Soudry

daniel.soudry@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Department of Neuroscience, the Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, the Grossman Center for the Statistics of Mind, the Kavli Institute for Brain Science, and the NeuroTechnology Center, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Suraj Keshri

Affiliation Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Patrick Stinson

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Department of Neuroscience, the Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, the Grossman Center for the Statistics of Mind, the Kavli Institute for Brain Science, and the NeuroTechnology Center, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Min-hwan Oh

Affiliation Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Garud Iyengar

Affiliation Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Liam Paninski

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Department of Neuroscience, the Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, the Grossman Center for the Statistics of Mind, the Kavli Institute for Brain Science, and the NeuroTechnology Center, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DS LP. Performed the experiments: DS SK PS MO. Analyzed the data: DS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GI. Wrote the paper: DS SK PS MO GI LP. Derived mathematical results: DS LP.