Random sampling of skewed distributions implies Taylor's power law of fluctuation scaling

DOI10.1073/PNAS.1503824112MaRDI QIDQ2962285zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Joel E. Cohen, Meng Xu

Publication date 16 February 2017

Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://europepmc.org/articles/pmc4485080

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probability distributions: general theory (60E05) Point estimation (62F10) Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Applications of statistics to environmental and related topics (62P12) Population dynamics (general) (92D25)

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