A test to detect clustering applied to muscle fibres.
The random arrangement of a chosen uncommon element type within a mosaic has been assessed by the new statistics, 'Number of Clusters' and 'Mean Cluster Size'. Their distributions were obtained by simulation assuming the mosaic has a hexagonal arrangement. When this assumption was relaxed to allow mosaics nearer to those observed in nature, the results were little changed. This method was then applied to a set of muscle fibre data to test hypotheses about the likely targets in inflammatory muscle disorders.
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Department of Community Medicine, University of Leeds, U.K.
D003198:Computer Simulation; D003882:Dermatomyositis / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D009132:Muscles / Q000473:pathology*; D009336:Necrosis; D013223:Statistics as Topic