openest.models.mean_size_model module¶
Mean-Size Model
In Mean-Size models, each point is characterized only by a value and the population size that went into estimating that value. As such, it does not have enough information to generate a full distribution. It can be safely combined with other mean-size models, or approximated with a Gaussian (with a variance which is equal to the absolute value of the mean for size = 1, and a variance that decreases with the square root of the size, according to the Central Limit Theorem).
The format is:
msx1,mean,size
<x0>,<mean0>,<size0>
<x1>,<mean1>,<size1>
...