Extended Data Fig. 6: Statistical significance of radial profile.

Results of a correlation analysis. Kendall’s τ correlation test with censoring⁵⁸ is performed using 10,000 bootstrap samples, with the resulting distributions of test statistics (a) and P-values (b) shown for the null hypothesis of no correlation. The dotted line shows the Gaussian KDE for the distribution using all data points, whereas the solid line and shaded histograms show the result for only data at ρ_LMC > 7 kpc.