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We comment on the analysis of the critical behavior of a layered driven diffusive system recently done by Achahbar and Marro. We discuss why we believe their method of taking the thermodynamic limit and determining the order-parameter exponent β leads to unreliable estimates.
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Leung, K.t., Zia, R.K.P. Subtleties in data analysis related to the size of critical region. J Stat Phys 83, 1219–1223 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02179560
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