The Clustering of Infected SIV Cells in Lymphatic Tissue
- 1 December 2002
- journal article
- Published by Informa UK Limited in Journal of the American Statistical Association
- Vol. 97 (460), 943-954
- https://doi.org/10.1198/016214502388618735
Abstract
Here we investigate the clustering of simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV)–infected cells in a lymphatic tissue sample taken from a rhesus macaque to test a spatial proximity model of the spread of infection. We see that standard methods for analysis of the clustering of point processes are not entirely satisfactory for this application, so we define a novel statistic to understand the clustering in the data. This statistic examines how events spread out from certain points deemed cluster centers. Using this statistic, we can demonstrate the statistical significance of the clustering and examine over what distances this clustering is witnessed. We use Bayesian methods to fully assess the uncertainty in the estimation of this statistic by positing a model for the process. (We assume the process is a nonhomogeneous Poisson process with an intensity that is a linear combination of Gaussian densities.) We see that the distances at which clustering is present are consistent with a simple model of SIV spread within the lymph node.Keywords
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