Reply to Murrell et al.: Noise matters

Comment

Justin B Kinney et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2014.

. 2014 May 27;111(21):E2161.

doi: 10.1073/pnas.1404661111.

No abstract available

Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Equitability, mutual information, and the maximal information coefficient.
Kinney JB, Atwal GS. Kinney JB, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2014 Mar 4;111(9):3354-9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1309933111. Epub 2014 Feb 18. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2014. PMID: 24550517 Free PMC article.
R2-equitability is satisfiable.
Murrell B, Murrell D, Murrell H. Murrell B, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2014 May 27;111(21):E2160. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1403623111. Epub 2014 Apr 29. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2014. PMID: 24782547 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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