Analyzing and interpreting spatial and temporal variability of the United States county population distributions using Taylor's law

• Meng Xu,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Mathematics, Pace University, New York, New York, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2569-3654

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• Joel E. Cohen

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

  * E-mail: cohen@rockefeller.edu

  Affiliations Laboratory of Populations, The Rockefeller University and Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America, Earth Institute and Department of Statistics, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9746-6725

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