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IN entomology it is usual to find that the numbers of insects or their eggs occurring in each sampling unit are not distributed normally, the many lesser and zero values causing the distribution to be extremely skewed. When such distributions occur, the gross deviations from normality invalidate the use of classical biometrical methods.
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SPILLER, D. Truncated Log-Normal and Root-Normal Frequency Distributions of Insect Populations. Nature 162, 530–531 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162530a0
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