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Re:What does randomness look like? by tdyo on Friday December 21, 2012 @07:14PM (#4955233)
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).

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Re:What does randomness look like? by aatish on Saturday December 22, 2012 @12:06AM (#4955826)
Nice! That's a really interesting and relevant example.
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