Correction to: Information Transmission and Criticality in the Contact Process (Journal of Statistical Physics, (2017), 168, 6, (1180-1190), 10.1007/s10955-017-1854-3)

The original publication of the article unfortunately contained a mistake in the first sentence of Theorem 1 and in the second part of the proof of Theorem 1. The corrected statement of Theorem as well as the corrected proof are given below. The full text of the corrected version is available at http://arxiv.org/abs/1705.11150.