... of mutual information, but rather resulted from the use of a nonoptimal value for the parameter k in the KNN algorithm of Kraskov et al (18) Finally we investigate the power of MIC, the KNN mutual ... three children, and let the variables X, Y, and Z represent the words spoken by the first, the second, and the third child, respectively The criterion in Eq is satisfied only if the measure D upholds ... estimating mutual information becomes easy in the large data limit, because pðX; Y Þ can be determined to arbitrary accuracy as N → ∞ The Maximal Information Coefficient In contrast to mutual information, ...