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and w was the gene weight: in the first clustering cycle, the gene weights used were those defined by the program Cluster, using a Pearson correlation cutoff of 0.7 and an exponent of 1 [ 67] and in subsequent cycles the gene weight was empirically defined as
The exponent with the maximum correlation coefficient is used to transform the data and approximate it to a normal distribution.
Different values for the exponent are tested and a correlation coefficient between the transformed data and an ideal normal distribution is calculated.
Whether metabolic rate really varies with the three-quarter power of body mass is still debated—some researchers still favor two-thirds, others think that no one exponent fits all the data—but a majority of biologists favor three-quarters.
“I don't believe there's anything to explain—there's no universal scaling exponent,” says Kozlowski.