We study the interpretation of the mean surface density of stellar companions as a function of separation (or, equivalently, the two-point correlation function of stars) in star-forming regions. First, we consider the form of the functions for various simple stellar distributions (binaries, global density profiles, clusters and fractals) and the effects of survey boundaries.
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Bate et al. (1998) studied this question.