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Table 1 Main notations used in this paper

From: State-transition dynamics of resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging data: model comparison and test-to-retest analysis

Symbols

Description

\(N_{\rm p}\)

Number of participants

\(N_{\rm s}\)

Number of sessions for each participant

N

Number of ROIs

T

Number of volumes (i.e., time points) in each session

\({{\textbf{x}}}_{t} \in \mathbb {R}^N\)

fMRI signal at time t

\(\overline{x}_t\)

Average of \(x_{t,i}\) over ROIs

\(\sigma _{t}\)

Standard deviation of \(x_{t,i}\) over ROIs

K

Number of discrete states

\(\textbf{c}_{\ell } \in \mathbb {R}^N\)

Centroid of the \(\ell\)th cluster, where \(\ell \in \{1,2, \ldots , K\}\)

\(L_t\)

Cluster label for \({\textbf{x}}_t; L_t \in \{1, 2, \ldots , K\}\)