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Group:
testing and evaluating user interfaces
Topic:
code optimization by advice and statistics
Topic:
collecting statistics on a UserInterface
Topic:
laboratory computers
Topic:
probabilistic and randomized algorithms
Topic:
probability
Topic:
program statistics
Topic:
random number generation
Topic:
randomness
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science as measurement
Topic:
software metrics
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statistical mechanics
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statistical testing based on a usage profile
Subtopic: statistical measures up

Quote: rank potential errors by the z statistic for proportions; deviation of observed ratio from expected ratio [»englD10_2001]

Subtopic: running statistic up

Quote: trend heuristic for bursting by using one counter per container; start value with bonuses and penalties; burst container when 0 [»heinS4_2002]
Quote: sliding window statistics by subdividing the window into basic windows; efficient elimination of old data and incorporation of new data [»shasD_2004]

Subtopic: cumulative, frequency counts up

Quote: improvement to Fenwick's algorithm for cumulative symbol frequency counts; use for adaptive, arithmetic coding [»moffA7_1999]

Subtopic: text correlation up

Quote: to correlate 3-4 terms need to treat item pairs as phrases; text is naturally correlated [»silvC9_1999]

Subtopic: confidence level up

Quote: a statistical result is stronger if fewer subjects yielded a given confidence level

Subtopic: rank-frequency up

Quote: moving people to raw material distributes cities while moving raw materials to people unifies cities; e.g., product of rank-frequency is constant for U.S. cities in 1940 [»zipfGK_1949]
Quote: the rank-frequency distribution of cities by size leads to a rank-frequency distribution of phone calls by distance [»zipfGK_1949]

Subtopic: Bernoulli process up

Quote: sample code execution as a Bernoulli process using pre-generated random countdowns; fast path is a decrement, compare, and branch [»liblB6_2003]
Quote: Lovelace showed the steps for computing the Bernoulli numbers with cycles of cycles of operations [»menaLF10_1842, OK]

Subtopic: limitations of statistics up

Quote: economic change not captured by statistical aggregates; constant, deliberate adjustments, every day [»hayeFA9_1945]
Quote: statistical approximation is irrelevant to grammar; e.g., 'colorless green ideas sleep furiously' is rare but grammatical
[»chomN9_1956]

Related Topics up

Group: testing and evaluating user interfaces   (9 topics, 262 quotes)
Topic: code optimization by advice and statistics (8 items)
Topic: collecting statistics on a UserInterface (12 items)
Topic: laboratory computers (2 items)
Topic: probabilistic and randomized algorithms (11 items)
Topic: probability (21 items)
Topic: program statistics (27 items)
Topic: random number generation (29 items)
Topic: randomness (20 items)
Topic: science as measurement (36 items)
Topic: software metrics (32 items)
Topic: statistical mechanics (22 items)
Topic: statistical testing based on a usage profile
(27 items)

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