On the exact distribution of observed open times in single ion channel models
- 1 September 1993
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Applied Probability
- Vol. 30 (3) , 529-537
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3214763
Abstract
Continuous-time Markov chain models have been widely considered for the gating behaviour of a single ion channel. In such models the state space is usually partitioned into two classes, designated ‘open' and ‘closed', and there is ‘aggregation' in that it is possible to observe only which class the process is in at any given time. Hawkes et al. (1990) have derived an expression for the density function of the exact distribution of an observed open time in such an aggregated Markov model, where brief sojourns in either the open or the closed class are unobservable. This paper extends their result to single ion channel models based on aggregated semi-Markov processes, giving a more direct derivation which is probabilistic and exhibits clearly the combinatorial content.Keywords
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