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- Descriptive models
- How things actually work, given historical outcomes, and answers the question “What did happen?”
- Predictive models
- How things actually work, used for future outcomes, and answers the question “What will happen?”
- Normative or Interpretive models
- How things should work, and answers the question “Why does this happen?”
- Mechanistic or Surrogate models
- How things can work, and answers the question “How does this happen?”
- Spike-triggered average, reverse correlation, or white-noise analysis
- Tool for characterizing the transfer function of a neuron using the spikes emitted in response to a time-varying stimulus.
