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The Burst Duration & Separation Histograms are a useful tool to study the effect of burst search and/or burst selection parameters.
The different ways of plotting these histograms are described in the corresponding section of the Burst Statistics Definitions manual page.
The example shown below uses the Sigworth & Sine representation with 30 bins/decade.
The Burst Duration histogram has a single peak appearance characteristic of a quasi-exponential distribution, with an average duration of 2 ms, while the Burst Separation histogram spans a much larger range of (from ~300 us to ~150 ms), characteristic of the a mixture of time scales due to re-entry of the same single molecule, and longer intervals separating consecutive molecules.
The numeric indicators below the graph show the mean and standard deviation of the last two plotted histograms (in s). These values are accessible for scripting purposes.
The Keep Burst Duration & Separation Plots checkbox ensures that newly computed plots are added to the list of existing plots (from previous computations). Note that the Analysis >> Clear All Burst Analysis Graphs menu item (Ctrl-Shift-D) will override this settings and clear the graph.
New plots take the name of the quantity (duration or separation) they represent. If a plot with the same name exists, the new plot gets a number in parenthesis added, as for all graphs in ALiX.
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