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The aims of analysis of single channel records can be considered in two categories. The first is to allow one to observe results at leisure in order to determine their qualitative features. It may, for example, be found that the single-channel currents were not all of the same amplitude or that they showed obvious grouping into bursts or that artifacts appeared on the record that might be misleading. These effects are often not easy to see on the oscilloscope screen as an experiment proceeds (especially since it is common practice for the signal to be rather heavily filtered for observation during the experiment). For this aim to be fulfilled, highly automated methods of analysis are not desirable.
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Colquhoun, D., Sigworth, F.J. (1983). Fitting and Statistical Analysis of Single-Channel Records. In: Sakmann, B., Neher, E. (eds) Single-Channel Recording. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7858-1_11
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