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"Inferring the roles of individuals in collective systems using information-theoretic measures of influence" by Sulimon Sattari, Udoy S. Basak, M. Mohiuddin, Mikito Toda, Tamiki Komatsuzaki is published in BPPB as the J-STAGE Advance Publication.

2024 March 22 BPPB

A following article is published as the J-STAGE Advance Publication in "Biophysics and Physicobiology".

Sulimon Sattari, Udoy S. Basak, M. Mohiuddin, Mikito Toda, Tamiki Komatsuzaki
"Inferring the roles of individuals in collective systems using information-theoretic measures of influence"

URL:https://doi.org/10.2142/biophysico.bppb-v21.s014


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Abstract
In collective systems, influence of individuals can permeate an entire group through indirect interactions— complicating any scheme to understand individual roles from observations. A typical approach to understand an individual’s influence on another involves consideration of confounding factors, for example, by conditioning on other individuals outside of the pair. This becomes unfeasible in many cases as the number of individuals increases. In this article, we review some of the unforeseen problems that arise in understanding individual influence in a collective such as single cells, as well as some of the recent works which address these issues using tools from information theory.



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