Comment on What does randomness look like?Comments−tdyo13yThis is exactly how they determine species distributions in ecology as well - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species_distributionUniform dispersion would suggest some territoriality aspect of the species, and clumped dispersion would suggest a heterogeneity of resources (or any other hypothesis that could then be tested).−aatish13yNice! That's a really interesting and relevant example.
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This is exactly how they determine species distributions in ecology as well - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species_distribution
Uniform dispersion would suggest some territoriality aspect of the species, and clumped dispersion would suggest a heterogeneity of resources (or any other hypothesis that could then be tested).
Nice! That's a really interesting and relevant example.