Epistasis and unitation
María Teresa Iglesias, Concepción Vidal, Dominique Suys, Alain H. M. J. Verschoren · 1999
Normalized epistasis measures links between separate bits in binary strings, used to represent data to be optimized with respect to a given fitness function. In this note, we explicitly calculate the epistasis of unitation functions, i.e., fitness functions f whose value only depends upon the number of ones resp. zeroes in the string on which f acts.