New approaches to meta-analyze differences in skewness, kurtosis, and correlation

• Pietro Pollo ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: pietro_pollo@hotmail.com (PP); snakagaw@ualberta.ca (SN)

  Affiliations Evolution & Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, School of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6555-5400

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• Szymon M. Drobniak,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Evolution & Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, Institute of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

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• Hamed Haselimashhadi ,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  ¶☯ These authors contributed equally and are listed alphabetically.

  Affiliation European Bioinformatics Institute, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Hinxton, United Kingdom

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• Malgorzata Lagisz ,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  ¶☯ These authors contributed equally and are listed alphabetically.

  Affiliations Evolution & Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Biological Sciences Building, Edmonton, Canada

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• Ayumi Mizuno ,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  ¶☯ These authors contributed equally and are listed alphabetically.

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Biological Sciences Building, Edmonton, Canada

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• Laura A. B. Wilson ,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  ¶☯ These authors contributed equally and are listed alphabetically.

  Affiliations School of Archaeology and Anthropology, The Australian National University, Acton, Australia, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Kensington, Australia, ARC Training Centre for Multiscale 3D Imaging, Modelling and Manufacturing, Research School of Physics, The Australian National University, Acton, Australia

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• Daniel W. A. Noble ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors share senior authorship on this work.

  Affiliation Division of Ecology and Evolution, Research School of Biology, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

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• Shinichi Nakagawa

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: pietro_pollo@hotmail.com (PP); snakagaw@ualberta.ca (SN)

  ¶‡ These authors share senior authorship on this work.

  Affiliations Evolution & Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Biological Sciences Building, Edmonton, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7765-5182

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