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Aggregated Markov processes with negative exponential time interval omission

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2016

Frank Ball
Frank Ball*
Affiliation:
University of Nottingham
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∗ Postal address: Department of Mathematics, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK.
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Abstract

We consider a time reversible, continuous time Markov chain on a finite state space. The state space is partitioned into two sets, termed open and closed, and it is only possible to observe whether the process is in an open or a closed state. Further, short sojourns in either the open or closed states fail to be detected. We consider the situation when the length of minimal detectable sojourns follows a negative exponential distribution with mean μ–1. We show that the probability density function of observed open sojourns takes the form , where n is the size of the state space. We present a thorough asymptotic analysis of f O(t) as μ tends to infinity. We discuss the relevance of our results to the modelling of single channel records. We illustrate the theory with a numerical example.

Keywords

TIME REVERSIBLE PROCESSSINGLE CHANNEL GATING KINETICSSPECTRAL DECOMPOSITIONPERTURBATION THEORYIDENTIFIABILITY

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Research Article
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Advances in Applied Probability , Volume 22 , Issue 4 , December 1990 , pp. 802 - 830
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Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1990 

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