Table 3.

Test for rotated plates. a) Plate rotation results from the rank matrices R and R' . The flagged comparisons indicate a plate rotation for plate p. b) Plate rotation distance matrix comparison. The data meet the criteria for a plate rotation.

a)	A1 v B		A2 v C		A3 v D		A4 v E
Plates	R_{mm}	R'_{mm}	R_{mm}	R'_{mm}	R_{mm}	R'_{mm}	R_{mm}	R'_{mm}
{i, i}	1	102	1	95	1	82	1	93
{j, j}	1	18	1	102	1	16	1	64
{k, k}	1	52	1	99	1	102	1	41
{l, l}	6	108	3	35	9	76	1	22
{m, m}	1	51	1	79	1	85	1	68
{n, n}	1	14	1	35	1	41	1	93
{o, o}	1	92	1	92	1	102	1	76
{p, p}	78	1	48	1	46	1	65	1
{q, q}	1	117	1	96	1	87	1	111
{r, r}	1	118	1	110	1	115	1	112
{s, s}	1	116	1	108	1	109	1	113
{t, t}	1	69	1	93	3	20	1	103
{u, u}	1	116	1	103	1	72	1	84
{v, v}	1	83	1	104	1	85	1	64
b)	A1 v B		A2 v C		A3 v D		A4 v E
	D_{mm}	D'_{mm}	D_{mm}	D'_{mm}	D_{mm}	D'_{mm}	D_{mm}	D'_{mm}
MEAN	0.26	0.96	0.23	0.88	0.19	0.81	0.21	0.88
SD	0.14	0.1	0.14	0.14	0.1	0.17	0.13	0.14
{pp}	0.95		0.84		0.85		0.97
{pp}		0.21		0.14		0.23		0.24
P-value	4.10E-07	3.20E-14	6.60E-06	6.30E-08	2.10E-11	3.20E-04	2.50E-09	2.40E-06