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SUBMITTER: Zeng X
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6176556 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zeng Xianli X Xia Yingcun Y Tong Howell H
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20180917 40
Quantifying the dependence between two random variables is a fundamental issue in data analysis, and thus many measures have been proposed. Recent studies have focused on the renowned mutual information (MI) [Reshef DN, et al. (2011) <i>Science</i> 334:1518-1524]. However, "Unfortunately, reliably estimating mutual information from finite continuous data remains a significant and unresolved problem" [Kinney JB, Atwal GS (2014) <i>Proc Natl Acad Sci USA</i> 111:3354-3359]. In this paper, we exami ...[more]