Approximate solutions of a general stochastic velocity-jump model subject to discrete-time noisy observations

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Auteurs principaux: Ceccarelli, Arianna, Browning, Alexander P., Baker, Ruth E.
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author Ceccarelli, Arianna
Browning, Alexander P.
Baker, Ruth E.
author_facet Ceccarelli, Arianna
Browning, Alexander P.
Baker, Ruth E.
contents Advances in experimental techniques allow the collection of high-resolution spatio-temporal data that track individual motile entities over time. These tracking data motivate the use of mathematical models to characterise the motion observed. In this paper, we aim to describe the solutions of velocity-jump models for single-agent motion in one spatial dimension, characterised by successive Markovian transitions within a finite network of n states, each with a specified velocity and a fixed rate of switching to every other state. In particular, we focus on obtaining the solutions of the model subject to noisy, discrete-time, observations, with no direct access to the agent state. The lack of direct observation of the hidden state makes the problem of finding the exact distributions generally intractable. Therefore, we derive a series of approximations for the data distributions. We verify the accuracy of these approximations by comparing them to the empirical distributions generated through simulations of four example model structures. These comparisons confirm that the approximations are accurate given sufficiently infrequent state switching relative to the imaging frequency. The approximate distributions computed can be used to obtain fast forwards predictions, to give guidelines on experimental design, and as likelihoods for inference and model selection.
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spellingShingle Approximate solutions of a general stochastic velocity-jump model subject to discrete-time noisy observations
Ceccarelli, Arianna
Browning, Alexander P.
Baker, Ruth E.
Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
Quantitative Methods
92-08
Advances in experimental techniques allow the collection of high-resolution spatio-temporal data that track individual motile entities over time. These tracking data motivate the use of mathematical models to characterise the motion observed. In this paper, we aim to describe the solutions of velocity-jump models for single-agent motion in one spatial dimension, characterised by successive Markovian transitions within a finite network of n states, each with a specified velocity and a fixed rate of switching to every other state. In particular, we focus on obtaining the solutions of the model subject to noisy, discrete-time, observations, with no direct access to the agent state. The lack of direct observation of the hidden state makes the problem of finding the exact distributions generally intractable. Therefore, we derive a series of approximations for the data distributions. We verify the accuracy of these approximations by comparing them to the empirical distributions generated through simulations of four example model structures. These comparisons confirm that the approximations are accurate given sufficiently infrequent state switching relative to the imaging frequency. The approximate distributions computed can be used to obtain fast forwards predictions, to give guidelines on experimental design, and as likelihoods for inference and model selection.
title Approximate solutions of a general stochastic velocity-jump model subject to discrete-time noisy observations
topic Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
Quantitative Methods
92-08
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.19787