Statistics Corner: Making Tables

Video Analysis Using Corner Motion Statistics

This paper presents an approach to infer what is happening in a (crowded) scene using a statistical method. Rather than trying to segment and track the individuals in each frame, our basic idea is to detect salient points (corners) along with their motion vectors. Finally, we obtain statistical measures on this data which are highly correlated with the kind of information/events proposed in som...

Informative Presentation of Tables, Graphs and Statistics

Statistics in practical decision making

This issue is devoted to statistics applied to decision making problems. The issue begins from consideration of methodological possibilities to construct regressions with meaningful and interpretable coefficients for individual predictors and shares of their importance. Ewa Nowakowska explores properties of the so-called Shapley value regression developed for adjusting regression coefficients w...

Making sense of health statistics.

a Hardnig Center for Risk Literacy, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Lentzeallee 94, 14195 Berlin, Germany. Correspondence to Gerd Gigerenzer (e-mail: [email protected]). Many physicians, patients, health journalists and politicians do not understand health statistics. Yet we make little effort to educate our children in statistical thinking or our medical students in und...

Extending User Understanding of Federal Statistics in Tables

This paper describes progress toward improving user interfaces for US Federal government statistics that are presented in tables. Based on studies of user behaviors and needs related to statistical tables, we describe interfaces to assist diverse users with a range of statistical literacy to explore, find, understand, and use US Federal government statistics.