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. 2013 Dec 6;8(12):e80808. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0080808

Table 1. Average staggered measures of three representative synthetic cell tracks per migration type.

average staggered type 1: type 2: type 3:
measure fairly straight strongly confined purely random
confinement ratio 0.81 (0.86Inline graphic0.05) 0.14 (0.13Inline graphic0.02) 0.45 (0.39Inline graphic0.05)
volume asphericity 0.80 (0.86Inline graphic0.06) 0.39 (0.34Inline graphic0.08) 0.57 (0.50Inline graphic0.07)
outreach ratio 0.82 (0.86Inline graphic0.05) 0.19 (0.18Inline graphic0.02) 0.48 (0.44Inline graphic0.04)
displacement ratio 0.99 (0.99Inline graphic0.02) 0.69 (0.71Inline graphic0.06) 0.93 (0.83Inline graphic0.06)
volume prolateness 0.74 (0.81Inline graphic0.08) 0.33 (0.28Inline graphic0.06) 0.48 (0.41Inline graphic0.07)

For each average staggered measure the values are highest (lowest) in the case of cell tracks of type 1 (type 2), while cell tracks of type 3 always assume intermediate values. Values in brackets denote the average value and standard deviation for the average staggered measure of the corresponding sub-population. The Wilcoxon rank-sum test revealed that the average staggered measures of different sub-populations were significantly different (Inline graphic).