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Is it possible to use Mic (maximal information coefficient) as an 'evolution' of partial correlation?
I have seen on a 11 months ago question here the following quote from a paper referred on the question:
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GWAS and Statistical theory - does the likelihood of a detectable main effect decrease with complexity?
I've been wondering recently about the difficulty of detecting statistically significant results from, say, genome-wide association studies. In these studies, many - ($10^{8}$) for example- ...
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Can the MIC algorithm for detecting non-linear correlations be explained intuitively ?
More recently, I read two articles. First one is about the history of the correlation and second is about the new method called Maximal Information Coefficient (MIC). I need your help regarding to ...
