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Olga Julià1, Jaume Vidal-Mas, Nicolai S Panikov
1Departament de Probabilitat, Lògica i Estadística, Facultat de Matemàtiques, Universitat de Barcelona, Gran Via, 585, 08007-Barcelona, Spain.
Abstract:
We report a skew-Laplace statistical analysis of both flow cytometry scatters and cell size from microbial strains primarily grown in batch cultures, others in chemostat cultures and bacterial aquatic populations. Cytometry scatters best fit the skew-Laplace distribution while cell size as assessed by an electronic particle analyzer exhibited a moderate fitting. Unlike the cultures, the aquatic bacterial communities clearly do not fit to a skew-Laplace distribution. Due to its versatile nature, the skew-Laplace distribution approach offers an easy, efficient, and powerful tool for distribution of frequency analysis in tandem with the flow cytometric cell sorting.
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