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Fractal Analysis in MATLAB: A Tutorial for Neuroscientists
1Software Engineering Department, University of Granada, Granada, Spain. demiras@ugr.es.
Abstract:
MATLAB is one of the software platforms most widely used for scientific computation. MATLAB includes a large set of functions, packages, and toolboxes that make it simple and fast to obtain complex mathematical and statistical computations for many applications. In this chapter, we review some tools available in MATLAB for performing fractal analyses on typical neuroscientific data in a practical way. We provide detailed examples of how to calculate the fractal dimension of 1D, 2D, and 3D data in MATLAB. Furthermore, we review other software packages for fractal analysis.

