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Main Authors: Sariyanidi, Evangelos, Herrington, John D., Yankowitz, Lisa, Chaudhari, Pratik, Satterthwaite, Theodore D., Zampella, Casey J., Morris, Jeffrey S., Gunning, Edward, Schultz, Robert T., Shinohara, Russell T., Tunc, Birkan
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.16001
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author Sariyanidi, Evangelos
Herrington, John D.
Yankowitz, Lisa
Chaudhari, Pratik
Satterthwaite, Theodore D.
Zampella, Casey J.
Morris, Jeffrey S.
Gunning, Edward
Schultz, Robert T.
Shinohara, Russell T.
Tunc, Birkan
author_facet Sariyanidi, Evangelos
Herrington, John D.
Yankowitz, Lisa
Chaudhari, Pratik
Satterthwaite, Theodore D.
Zampella, Casey J.
Morris, Jeffrey S.
Gunning, Edward
Schultz, Robert T.
Shinohara, Russell T.
Tunc, Birkan
contents Measuring the statistical dependence between observed signals is a primary tool for scientific discovery. However, biological systems often exhibit complex non-linear interactions that currently cannot be captured without a priori knowledge or large datasets. We introduce a criterion for dependence, whereby two time series are deemed dependent if one can construct a classifier that distinguishes between temporally aligned vs. misaligned segments extracted from them. We show that this criterion, concurrence, is theoretically linked with dependence, and can become a standard approach for scientific analyses across disciplines, as it can expose relationships across a wide spectrum of signals (fMRI, physiological and behavioral data) without ad-hoc parameter tuning or large amounts of data.
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spellingShingle Concurrence: A dependence criterion for time series, applied to biological data
Sariyanidi, Evangelos
Herrington, John D.
Yankowitz, Lisa
Chaudhari, Pratik
Satterthwaite, Theodore D.
Zampella, Casey J.
Morris, Jeffrey S.
Gunning, Edward
Schultz, Robert T.
Shinohara, Russell T.
Tunc, Birkan
Signal Processing
Machine Learning
Measuring the statistical dependence between observed signals is a primary tool for scientific discovery. However, biological systems often exhibit complex non-linear interactions that currently cannot be captured without a priori knowledge or large datasets. We introduce a criterion for dependence, whereby two time series are deemed dependent if one can construct a classifier that distinguishes between temporally aligned vs. misaligned segments extracted from them. We show that this criterion, concurrence, is theoretically linked with dependence, and can become a standard approach for scientific analyses across disciplines, as it can expose relationships across a wide spectrum of signals (fMRI, physiological and behavioral data) without ad-hoc parameter tuning or large amounts of data.
title Concurrence: A dependence criterion for time series, applied to biological data
topic Signal Processing
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.16001