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Table 4 Anderson-Darling statistical output for comparisons of burned and unburned samples (see Fig. 6 and Table 3), for the Madrean Ecoregion Sky Islands, US and Mexico. The standard deviation for the Anderson-Darling test statistic (AD.T) was 0.76, and the null hypothesis that all samples came from a common population was rejected in all comparisons (P < 0.001). Variables with density plots in Fig. 6 are shown in bold. Number of ties refers to the number of times identical values occur in the data. If too many ties occur, there will be a rejection of the null hypothesis and the result will suggest non-normality

From: Distant neighbors: recent wildfire patterns of the Madrean Sky Islands of southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico

Variable

US

Mexico

number of ties

AD.T

number of ties

AD.T

Road density

12091

144.57

23579

240.86

Population density

4189

114.84

8005

406.53

Terrain ruggedness

4092

466.68

7980

718.02

Lightning flash date

12191

358.16

23579

583.9

AHM

0

1203.7

0

1995.4

bFFP

486

753.27

598

2913.2

CMD

0

894.15

0

2690.6

DD_0

832

829.36

2171

2761.7

DD_18

0

881.7

0

2982

DD18

0

960.42

0

3239.8

DD5

0

934.04

0

3150.1

eFFP

1453

666.9

2233

2447.1

EMT

199

677.34

85

2367.5

Eref

2

607.38

0

3172.2

EXT

51

981.68

113

3069.2

FFP

216

736.15

256

2748.7

MAP

4

1079.3

2

528.65

MAT

194

932.23

141

3137.8

MCMT

539

786.1

251

2530.3

MSP

5

1021.7

28

128.37

MWMT

78

986.16

105

3035

NFFD

348

705.34

666

2678.3

PAS

6472

1118.2

17124

3853.6

PPT_sm

25

972.95

51

78.771

PPT_wt

144

569.68

263

1061.5

RH

3831

59.104

13584

23.661

SHM

0

1134.5

0

1137.3

Tave_sm

93

972.75

103

3190.6

Tave_wt

481

820.88

228

2721.8

TD

485

451.81

1111

134.93