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Table 1 Summary- and test-based results for the three example sections

From: New tools for the investigation of muscle fiber-type spatial distributions across histological sections

 

Section

1

2

3

Mean cluster size

11.6

5

4.4

Envelope

(10.7, 21.4)

(4, 5.8)

(4.5, 6.9)

Conclusion/Evidence (mean cluster size test)

Random

Random

Like-type repulsion

Expected unlike neighbor pairs

1187.1

1037.4

957.3

Observed unlike neighbor pairs

1181

955

1021

p-value

0.8177

\(2\times {10}^{-4}\)

0.0033

Conclusion/Evidence (unlike neighbor pairs test)

Randomness

Like-type attraction

Like-type repulsion

% abnormally grouped slow fibers

85.7%

96%

95.6%

% abnormally grouped fast fibers

65.2%

55.3%

28.4%