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Histograms and scatter plots for (A) asymptotic length (L„), growth rate coefficient (K), and theoretical age in years 
when the length is zero (to) and for (B) skewness (A), dispersion degrees of freedom (v), and heteroscedasticity (p), 
related to the log-skew-t model with power heteroscedastic function. (C) Prior densities of all parameters, except for 
p (p 1). For all plots, r is the Pearson correlation coefficient and is presented with its corresponding P-value. 
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