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The Loch Ness Monster: If It's Real, Could It Be an Eel?
Floe Foxon, 2023. JMIRx Bio 1: e49063.
Fits skew-normal and generalised extreme value distributions to European eel length data from Loch Ness and other European waters. The chance of a 1 m eel in the loch is about 1 in 50,000, plausible given the fish stock; the chance of one over 6 m is essentially zero, so eels may explain some smaller sightings but not large ones.
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The only peer-reviewed statistical test of the eel hypothesis.
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Foxon, F. (2023). The Loch Ness Monster: If It's Real, Could It Be an Eel?. JMIRx Bio 1: e49063. https://doi.org/10.2196/49063
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Foxon, Floe. “The Loch Ness Monster: If It's Real, Could It Be an Eel?.” JMIRx Bio 1: e49063 (2023). https://doi.org/10.2196/49063.