Computer program for statistical Mann-Whitney U nonparametric analysis of neuronal spike activity.

A program for neuronal activity analysis is described. The applied computational techniques are standard in the field of digital processing, but the program is particular in its field of application and mode of data selection. The program, written in Turbo Pascal for the IBM-PC and compatibles, statistically compares (Mann-Whitney U-test) two sets of graphically selected data, and establishes whether there are significant differences between them. Although the program was developed for spike frequency analysis, it can easily be adapted to perform statistical analysis of other kinds of data.