Multivariate approach for estimating the local spectral F-test and its application to the EEG during photic stimulation.

Background And Objective: The local spectral F-test (SFT) corresponds to a statistical way of assessing whether the spectrum of a signal is flat in the vicinity of a specific frequency. The power of this univariate test (comparing one frequency component  against its neighbours using only one signal) depends on the signal-to-noise ratio, which is fixed in the case of electroencephalogram (EEG) analysis. However, this limitation could be overcome by considering more signals in the analysis.