A test of hypotheses for random graph distributions built from EEG data

Andressa Cerqueira, Daniel Fraiman, Claudia D. Vargas, Florencia Leonardi

The theory of random graphs is being applied in recent years to model neural interactions in the brain. While the probabilistic properties of random graphs has been extensively studied in the literature, the development of statistical inference methods for this class of objects has received less attention. In this work we propose a non-parametric test of hypotheses to test if two samples of random graphs were originated from the same probability distribution. We show how to compute efficiently the test statistic and we study its performance on simulated data. We apply the test to compare graphs of brain functional network interactions built from electroencephalographic (EEG) data collected during the visualization of point light displays depicting human locomotion.

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