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Reviewer 2 Comment 3 #27

Open ramess101 opened 5 years ago

ramess101 commented 5 years ago

@mrshirts

comment about equation 13: I am glad that the sign of the mu*N term is now corrected to be negative. I assumed the positive sign to be a misprint in the first MBAR paper. But when the wrong positive sign reappeared in subsequent publications I started to have doubt about whether some intricacy existed about the sign.

This is equation 13:

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@mrshirts I assume the "first MBAR paper" the reviewer is referring to is "Statistically optimal analysis of samples from multiple equilibrium states," where the reduced potential energy is defined as:

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I believe we have the sign correct in the present manuscript, but I just wanted to double check with you first.

mrshirts commented 5 years ago

Yeah, that's pretty stupid. Somebody has been harboring a grudge. I wonder why they never wrote me directly.

ramess101 commented 5 years ago

@mrshirts

Yeah, I don't know why. Should we make a note of this to help avoid future confusion?

mrshirts commented 5 years ago

I'm working on a review, and I'll clarify there.

ramess101 commented 5 years ago

@mrshirts

Let me know if you want to modify my response:

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ramess101 commented 5 years ago

@mrshirts

Could you check that you are OK with how I worded this response regarding the sign error?