Apart from the frequency of terms in a document collection, the distribution of words plays an important role in determining the relevance of documents for a given search query. In this paper, word distribution analysis as a novel approach for using descriptive statistics to calculate a compressed representation of word positions in a document corpus is introduced. Based on this statistical app...

The processes through which readers evoke mental representations of phonological forms from print constitute a hotly debated and controversial issue in current psycholinguistics. In this paper we present a computational analysis of the grapho-phonological system of written French, and an empirical validation of some of the obtained descriptive statistics. The results provide direct evidence dem...

MMPI-2 clinical, validity, restructured clinical, content, selected supplemental, and PSY-5 scale data from convicted offenders who were incarcerated and referred by community criminal courts were analyzed. Descriptive statistics, including frequency data for high points and well-defined two-point code types were provided. Compared to state and federal inmates, significantly more individuals fr...

Multifractality present in high frequency pupil diameter measurements, usually connected with irregular scaling behavior and self-similarity, is modelled with statistical accuracy. A multifractal spectrum is used to discriminate pupil behavior measurements from four groups differing in ocular pathology. Broadness and the spectrum maximum, two measures characterizing the multifractal spectrum of...

BACKGROUND Drug abuse is a disorder associated with unhealthy pattern of drug consumption and is a widespread social delinquent both in society and at home. There have only been a few studies conducted on the frequency and types of harmful behaviors among drug abusers. OBJECTIVES The objective of this study is to investigate the frequency of harmful behaviors in people who are suffering from ...

This paper provides the first detailed examination of the trading activities of active Australian institutional equity managers. Employing a unique database of daily transactions data, the study investigates the trading behaviour of active equity managers for the calendar year 2001. This research has two principal objectives – (1) to provide descriptive statistics relating to trade volume, freq...

We report psycholinguistic norms for 305 French idiomatic expressions (Study 1). For each of the idiomatic expressions, the following variables are reported: knowledge, predictability, literality, compositionality, subjective and objective frequency, familiarity, age of acquisition (AoA), and length. In addition, we have collected comprehension times for each idiom (Study 2). The psycholinguist...

the aim of this study was to compare the effect of self-control, frequent and reduced feedback of kr on children's learning skill of throw targeting in aleshtar city. for this purpose, 60 subjects were selected and assigned through step-by-step random method to three groups of self-control, frequent, and reduced. they performed the task of targeting through throwing in two steps of acquisi...

In this paper we analyze the use of statistics and associated problems, in three Czech biological journals in the year 2000. We investigated 23 articles Folia Biologica, 60 articles in Folia Microbiologica, and 88 articles in Physiological Research. The highest frequency of publications with statistical content have used descriptive statistics and t-test. The most usual mistake concerns the abs...