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Reply to Chen: Under specified assumptions, adequate random samples of skewed distributions obey Taylor's law [Biological Sciences]

J. E. Cohen, M. Xu.
Chen (1) simulated random samples of beta, lognormal, and Poisson distributions with varying parameters following the method that we (2) used for fixed parameters. Chen claimed that the relationship between the supporting rate of Taylor's law (TL) and skewness is “complex and nonmonotonic,” as some random samples of some skewed...