Table 2 Fitted Gaussian Mixture Model parameters for thermally aged VLPs imaged by a single pass of an AFM tip

From: Analyzing atomic force microscopy images of virus-like particles by expectation-maximization

Description

Number of VLPs, total

Fraction

Mean

Sigma

95% C.I. of mean

2 h

54

0.10

73.6

0.83

0.4

  

0.46

80.3

6.22

3.2

  

0.44

81.4

3.28

1.7

3 h

33

1.00

74.1

8.47

2.9

4 h

42

0.50

60.8

3.24

1.9

  

0.43

71.2

3.92

2.3

  

0.07

81.0

0.70

0.4

All VLPs – 2 factors

129

0.23

61.8

3.60

0.6

  

0.77

78.0

6.25

1.1

  1. Individual VLP width is the extracted descriptor from each image. Data for each aging time is determined from the ensemble of three AFM images.