mne-tools/mne-python — pull request #89 by mluessi (2012-09-05 21:33:20+00:00)
Title: ENH: multi-taper PSD estimation

Multi-taper PSD estimation, direct and for MNE-type inverse methods in source space.

The functions for the DPSS window computation were copied from nitime with some minor modifications. The PSD computation was optimized s.t. it requires less memory and is faster than the nitime version: When adaptive weights are used, the tapered spectra are combined directly instead of first returning the weights (~50% memory saving), in addition, parallel processing can be used to speed up the computation.