7. FINAL NOTE

As is obvious from the foregoing description, the intervals between successive events are coded in decimal form, while the events are defined in hexadecimal form). There are two reasons for this seemingly awkward dichotomy. Firstly, events defined by TYPE and QUALIFIER could be coded in many ways so that there is no special advantage in using decimal notations. Secondly, it would be advantageous to code all numbers in hexadecimal (because this would save some space), but the user of these files might find hexadecimal times hard to decipher.

   Some demo data files can be downloaded here.

Acknowledgement
This document contains many excerpts from the original proposal for coding electrophysiological time series suggested by Professor Moshe Abeles at the Dept of Physiology, School of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
His insights for the analysis of renewal point processes have influenced much of our work.

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