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. 2013 Jan 11;34(4):546–556. doi: 10.1002/humu.22273

Table 1.

Summary of the Notation for (Dis)Similarity Measures Between Base Pair Probabilities of Wild-Type and Mutant

Probability distribution
P Full base pairing probabilities
π Position-wise pairing probabilities
ξ< Position-wise, upstream
ξ> Position-wise, downstream
ξ<> Position wise, distinguishing up- and downstream
Similarity measure
r Pearson correlation
d Euclidean distance (L2 norm)
Optimization
r, d Global
rmin, dmax Best local interval
r#, d# Approximate optimization for scanning