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On the relation between fluctuation and response in biological systems.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 25 Nov 2003
Sato Katsuhiko, Ito Yoichiro, Yomo Tetsuya, Kaneko Kunihiko
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A general relationship between fluctuation and response in a biological system is presented. The fluctuation is given by the variance of some quantity, whereas the response is given as the average change of that quantity for a given parameter change. We propose a relationship where the two are proportional, in a similar way to the fluctuation-dissipation theorem in physics. By studying an evolution experiment...
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