The un body: a possible structure for transcriptionally inactivated chromatin subunits

The Weibull distribution is increasingly finding application in the biological sciences, notably in forestry, where it has given good fits to tree-diameter frequency distribution. Interest among foresters is currently focused on improving the interpretation for the two parameters of this distribution, resulting in better understanding of forest stand growth.This paper presents a mathematical derivation of the Weibull distribution based on a generalization of the broken stick model used in ecology for species-abundance curves. This derivation suggests that the inverse of one parameter can be interpreted as an index of non-randomness and that the other parameter is inversely proportional to total frequency in an observed frequency distribution.