Figure 7. Signaling time depends on the number of initiation events.
can increase or decrease as a function of 
depending on the value of 
. Here 
. (A) 
vs. CV of 
for 
varying from 
(red) to 
(green) to 
(blue) using the Bernoulli delay distribution 
in Example with 
. Note the transition that occurs at 
. (B) Equivalent to (A), but plotting CV of the signaling time instead of conditional expectation. (C) and (D) Contour plots corresponding to (A) and (B), respectively. Notice that for fixed 
, signaling time CV can change non-monotonically with 
. For instance, at 
, signaling time CV starts low (red), increases to 
(green) and then decreases thereafter. Plots were obtained through stochastic simulation with 
trials.