Schreyer_and_Gollisch_2021_salamander_retinal_bipolar_cell_recordings/spatiotemporalWhiteNoise/code spatiotemporal white noise/doBin.m

function  [bin]=doBin(NL_x,NL_y,xbin)
%this subfunction is doing the binning for nonLinearity
%get different bins

%% 1. get equal amount of observation inside a bin
%standard score:
x=prctile(NL_x,linspace(0,100,xbin+1)); %you want equal amount of observations in each bin!And not one bin of only e.g. 10 observations.
%I want to now where the percentil are
%prctile gives you now where the edges of the corresponding percentile rank
%are.

x(end)=x(end)+x(end)/100; %the last bin should be a bit bigger so that the last observation
%can also go inside it
[observations,indx]=histc(NL_x,x);

%little trick so that you have 40 equal bin and not one bin at the end
%that is empty or just has one value
observations=observations(1:end-1);
%make average in y axis
NL_ytemp=cell(1,length(observations));
for mm=1:length(NL_ytemp)
    NL_ytemp{mm}=NL_y(indx==mm);
end
%make average in x axis
x_AVG=cell(1,length(observations));
for mm=1:length(x_AVG)
    x_AVG{mm}=NL_x(indx==mm);
end

%get the average values per bin
bin.NL_ybin=cellfun(@nanmean,NL_ytemp);
bin.NL_xbin=cellfun(@nanmean,x_AVG);

end