  Statistical moment-based ellipse fitting was performed on observations of
Large Magellanic Cloud clusters, confirming that trends are evident in their
position angles and ellipticities, as had been reported in the literature.
Artificial cluster images with known parameters were generated, and subjected
to the same analysis techniques, revealing apparent trends caused by stochastic
processes. Caution should therefore be exercised in the interpretation of
observational trends in young LMC clusters.
