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. 2016 May 17;11(5):e0154847. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0154847

Table 1. Description of the spatial measures considered.

Name Values Description
clusteredness [0, 1] Indicates if regions contain holes (clusteredness <1) or not (clusteredness = 1), respectively measures if the average distance between all positions considered in a cluster is small (clusteredness →1) or large (clusteredness →0).
density [0, 1] Computes the average value associated with the discretised spatial positions defining a region/cluster.
area + Represents the number of positions in the discretised space associated with a region/cluster.
perimeter + Represents the length of the outer contour of a region, respectively the convex hull of a cluster.
distance from the origin + Computes the minimum distance between the outer contour of a region, respectively the convex hull of a cluster, and the centre point of the discretised spatial domain.
angle [0, 360] (degrees) Determined by the lines that pass through the discretised spatial domain’s centre point and are tangent to a region’s outer contour, respectively cluster’s convex hull.
triangle/rectangle/circle measure [0, 1] Indicates if the shape of the region’s outer contour, respectively cluster’s convex hull, is similar to a triangle/rectangle/circle (triangle/rectangle/circle measure →1) or not (triangle/rectangle/circle measure →0).
centroid Ox/Oy coordinate + Represents the Ox/Oy coordinate of the geometric centre of the region’s outer contour, respectively cluster’s convex hull.

Each spatial measure considered has a name (column “Name”), an associated range of valid values (column “Values”) and a corresponding description (column “Description”). In case of spatial measures which have similar semantics the table rows have been merged and the spatial measure names are separated by the “/” symbol (see last two table rows).