Roundtable: What is Holding Librarianship Back from Being more Inclusive of Visible Minorities

What Is Holding Back Convnets for Detection?

Convolutional neural networks have recently shown excellent results in general object detection and many other tasks. Albeit very effective, they involve many user-defined design choices. In this paper we want to better understand these choices by inspecting two key aspects “what did the network learn?”, and “what can the network learn?”. We exploit new annotations (Pascal3D+), to enable a new ...

P-value: What is and what is not

The misinterpretation and misuse of p-value have been increasing for decades. In March 2016, the American Statistical Association released a statement to warn about the use and interpretation of p-value. In this study, we provided a definition and discussion of p-value and emphasized the importance of its accurate interpretation.    

Leprosy: what is being "eliminated"?

Low income among immigrants and visible minorities

The Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID) has been a source of longitudinal data since 1993. Respondents are surveyed twice a year—once on labour and once on income—for six consecutive years. Each six-year period is called a panel, and new panels are begun every three years. Presently, longitudinal data are available from two complete panels, 1993 to 1998 and 1996 to 2001, which have been...

Is A Household Debt Overhang Holding Back Consumption?

The recent plunge in U.S. home prices left many households that had borrowed voraciously during the credit boom highly leveraged, meaning that they had very high levels of debt relative to the value of their assets. Analysts often assert that this “debt overhang” created a need for household deleveraging that, in turn, has been depressing consumer spending and impeding the economic recovery. Th...