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diff --git a/src/analysis2.i b/src/analysis2.i new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7828ad1 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/analysis2.i @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +Antlions organize themselves systematically in response to the +environments where they find themselves. +Individuals attempt to regularize their own pit locations according to +nearby pits and the borders of the living space, and this structure is +affirmed by a statistical test on the uniformity of their distribution. +Using a Monte Carlo simulation of 10,000 randomly distributed patterns +of the same number of pits as observed from each trial, a typical +distribution of the distance to the nearest neighbor was determined. +The distance to the nearest neighbor is approximately independent for +each pit, so a Cram\'er-von Mises statistical test was applied to the +observed distributions, resulting in striking evidence that these pit%' +dsitributions do not conform to a uniformly random independent +distribution of each pit, with all (except one) distributions of +antlions having $p<0.05.$ |