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

DOI10.1073/pnas.1503824112zbMath1357.62092OpenAlexW2067987286WikidataQ35795923 ScholiaQ35795923MaRDI QIDQ2962285

Meng Xu, Joel E. Cohen

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

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

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