Greetings - I'm hoping to compare contemporary coral colony size distributions with historical datasets reported in technical reports in the late 1980's. The reports have only summary statistics (n-number of colonies observed, x-mean size, and sd-standard deviation). Assuming the distribution represents the truncated log-normal (typically observed for coral colony size data), I'm trying to generate a population distribution given the known summary statistics. Generating a simple vector dataset using the rlnorm function in R is easy, however I am requesting insight to apply the truncated model, encompassing all non-zero values and a maximum value of my choosing that applies to the dataset.
I'd appreciate any insight on the topic, Peter ********************************************* Peter Houk, PhD Marine Biologist Pacific Marine Resources Institute www.pacmares.com www.micronesianfishing.com
