title: Reply to Chen: Under specified assumptions, adequate random samples of skewed distributions obey Taylor's law.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Populations, Rockefeller University and Columbia University, New York, NY 10065; and cohen@rockefeller.edu.
authors.forename: Joel E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Cohen
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Populations, Rockefeller University and Columbia University, New York, NY 10065; and Department of Mathematics and Physics, University of New Haven, West Haven, CT 06516.
authors.forename: Meng
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Xu