Release 0.11.0

Breaking changes

• For current source density measures electrode coordinates can no longer be supplied via a RecordingChannelGroup object as it is no longer supported in Neo v0.10.0 (#447)

New functionality and features

• Redesigned elephant.spike_train_generation module using classes (old API is retained for compatibility) (#416)
• Added function to calculate the multitaper power spectral density estimate in elephant.spectral (#417)
• Added a boundary correction for the firing rate estimator elephant.statistics.instantaneous_rate with Gaussian kernels (#414)
• Function to discretise spiketimes for a given spiketrain in elephant.conversion (#454)
• Support for the new SpikeTrainList object of Neo (#447)

Bug fixes

• Issue with unit scaling in BinnedSpikeTrain (#425)
• Changed BinnedSpikeTrain to support quantities<0.12.4 (#418)
• Fix FloatingPointError in ICSD (#421)
• t_start information was lost while transposing LFP for current_source_density module (#432)
• Fix neo_tools unit tests to work with Neo 0.10.0+ (#446)
• Fixed various issues with consistency of bin boundaries of instantaneous rates (#453)

Documentation

• Update tutorials ASSET and UE tutorial and datasets to use nixio >=1.5.0 (#441)
• Updated spade tutorial to work with viziphant 0.2.0 (#444)
• Fixed figures in the Granger causality tutorial (#434)
• Add DOIs to documentation (#456)
• Fixed random seed selection in some tutorials (#430)

Optimizations

• Highly optimized run-time of the SPADE analysis (#419)
• More efficient storage of spike complexities by the elephant.statistics.Complexity class (#412)
• Updated elephant.signal_processing.zscore function for in-place operations (#440)

Other changes

• Continuous Integration (CI) was moved to github actions (#451)
• Change test framework from Nose to pytest (#413)
• Added DOI with zenodo (#445)
• Versioning for associated elephant-data repository for example datasets introduced (#463)

Selected dependency changes

• nixio >= 1.5.0
• neo >= 0.10.0
• python >= 3.7