Telegraph process
In probability theory, the telegraph process is a memoryless continuous-time stochastic process that shows two distinct values. It models burst noise (also called popcorn noise or random telegraph signal). If the two possible values that a random variable can take are and , then the process can be described by the following master equations:
and
where is the transition rate for going from state to state and is the transition rate for going from going from state to state . The process is also known under the names Kac process (after mathematician Mark Kac),[1] and dichotomous random process.[2]
Solution
The master equation is compactly written in a matrix form by introducing a vector ,
where
is the transition rate matrix. The formal solution is constructed from the initial condition (that defines that at , the state is ) by
- .
It can be shown that[3]
where is the identity matrix and is the average transition rate. As , the solution approaches a stationary distribution given by
Properties
Knowledge of an initial state decays exponentially. Therefore, for a time , the process will reach the following stationary values, denoted by subscript s:
Mean:
Variance:
One can also calculate a correlation function:
Application
This random process finds wide application in model building:
- In physics, spin systems and fluorescence intermittency show dichotomous properties. But especially in single molecule experiments probability distributions featuring algebraic tails are used instead of the exponential distribution implied in all formulas above.
- In finance for describing stock prices[1]
- In biology for describing transcription factor binding and unbinding.
See also
References
- ^ a b Bondarenko, YV (2000). "Probabilistic Model for Description of Evolution of Financial Indices". Cybernetics and Systems Analysis. 36 (5): 738–742. doi:10.1023/A:1009437108439. S2CID 115293176.
- ^ Margolin, G; Barkai, E (2006). "Nonergodicity of a Time Series Obeying Lévy Statistics". Journal of Statistical Physics. 122 (1): 137–167. arXiv:cond-mat/0504454. Bibcode:2006JSP...122..137M. doi:10.1007/s10955-005-8076-9. S2CID 53625405.
- ^ Balakrishnan, V. (2020). Mathematical Physics: Applications and Problems. Springer International Publishing. pp. 474
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