Difficulties in summing log-normal distributions for abundance and potential solutions

• Emma J. Talis ,

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

  * E-mail: emma.talis@stonybrook.edu

  Affiliations Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States of America, Institute for Advanced Computational Science, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7231-2607

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• Christian Che-Castaldo,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Institute for Advanced Computational Science, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States of America

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• Heather J. Lynch

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute for Advanced Computational Science, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States of America, Department of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States of America

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