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That kind of head tax is interesting not as a realistic policy proposal but as a benchmark for comparison: Economists like to say that a head tax has the advantage of being perfectly efficient (it does not discourage any economic activity), but the disadvantage of being perfectly inequitable (the rich and the poor pay equal amounts).
The work by Loren I. Field, Ph.D., and his colleagues at the School was a cover story in a recent issue of Science - the preeminent journal recognizing benchmark research.
Table 2shows mean scaled delta-distance by sequence ( Abbr ) and window size ( n ). Scaled delta-distance, defined above as δ*√ n , is a statistical invariant for any benchmark sequence generated by a Markov chain exhibiting the same signature as the given sequence.
Determine how the agency selected a representative mix of programs for the benchmark.
As a benchmark set, the 'known' genes of human chromosome 22 are widely used, as it was the first completely sequenced human chromosome [ 36].