Figure 7. Adjusted R² values for simulations of plaque.

A simulation was performed where infectious plaques were initiated randomly, allowed to grow exponentially and randomly sampled 25 times (see Text S1 and Figure S2). This data was then plotted as a CDF and the adjusted R² estimated for the best fit straight line to the data. This process was repeated 100 times for each of the plaque numbers indicated and the resulting R² values plotted as a CDF. The red line indicates the lowest (0.88), the green line the 7^th lowest (0.94) and the blue line the median R² for our 8 subjects (see Table 2).