Webinar Monday Lecture Series
(open to the Rockefeller community)
Monday, April 12, 2021
Joel E. Cohen, Ph.D., Dr.P.H.
Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor and Head
Laboratory of Populations
The Rockefeller University
How Does Your Variance Change with Your Mean? And Tales of Heavy Tails
Recommended Readings:
Empirical Articles
Xu, Meng; Cohen, Joel E. (2021). Spatial and temporal autocorrelations affect Taylor’s law for US county populations: Descriptive and predictive models. PLOS ONE. 16 (1)
Cohen, Joel E.; Davis, Richard A.; Samorodnitsky, Gennady. (2020). Heavy-tailed distributions, correlations, kurtosis and Taylor’s Law of fluctuation scaling. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES. 476 (2244). Please contact the Markus Library to access the article.
Cohen, Joel E. (2020). Species-abundance distributions and Taylor’s power law of fluctuation scaling. THEORETICAL ECOLOGY. 13 (4): 607-614
Xu, Meng; Cohen, Joel E. (2019). Analyzing and interpreting spatial and temporal variability of the United States county population distributions using Taylor’s law. PLOS ONE. 14 (12)
Cohen, Joel E. (2019). Every variance function, including Taylor’s power law of fluctuation scaling, can be produced by any location-scale family of distributions with positive mean and variance. THEORETICAL ECOLOGY. 13 (1): 1-5
Brown, Mark; Cohen, Joel E.; De la Pena, Victor H. (2017). TAYLOR’S LAW, VIA RATIOS, FOR SOME DISTRIBUTIONS WITH INFINITE MEAN. JOURNAL OF APPLIED PROBABILITY. 54 (3): 657-669. Please contact the Markus Library to access the article.
Review Paper
Skirbekk, Vegard F.; Staudinger, Ursula M.; Cohen, Joel E. (2019). How to Measure Population Aging? The Answer Is Less than Obvious: A Review. GERONTOLOGY. 65 (2): 136-144
Book Chapter
Reuman, Daniel C.; Cohen, Joel E.; Mulder, Christian. (2009). Human and Environmental Factors Influence Soil Faunal Abundance-Mass Allometry and Structure. ADVANCES IN ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH. 41: 45-85