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Thus, the reconstructed ancestor of the clade corresponding to Enterobacteriaceae (A in Figure 1) was considered to constitute a close approximation of the free-living ancestor that gave rise to Buchnera.
Increase the number of executions by 1 percent (which amounts to increasing the severity of the average punishment) and (again to a very rough approximation) the murder rate falls by about half a percent.
This calculation of γ is limited to time points where the value of the gamma distribution is greater than 1% of the peak value of the gamma distribution - that is, points where the gamma distribution provides a good approximation.
The representation of the fitness landscape as a tree is potentially more problematic, because there may exist several paths from the reference sequence to a particular sequence at mutational distance d , whereas the tree approximation assumes that there is only one such path.
The K-S test for normality is consistent with a normal distribution and a normal Q-Q plot of VPA concentration in hair shows a good approximation of normality.