Integration of heterogeneous statistics is essential for political decision making on all levels. Like in intelligent information integration in general, the problem is to combine information from different autonomous sources, using different ontologies. However, in statistical information integration specific problems arise. This paper is focussed on the problem of differences in classificatio...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to determine parental attitudes regarding engagement with video games by their children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and whether attitudes vary based on ASD symptom severity. METHOD Online survey methodology was used to gather information from parents of children with ASD between the ages of 8 and 12 years. The finalized data set included 152 cases...

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In this paper we develop a computational framework for the measurement of different factors or abilities which are usually found in intelligent behaviours. For this, we first develop a scale for measuring the complexity of an instance of a problem, depending on the descriptional complexity (Levin LT variant) of the ‘explanation’ of the answer to the problem. We centre on the establishment of ei...

ethods: A random-digit-dial survey was conducted about home safety with 1003 respondents representing households in the continental United States. Descriptive statistics assess the prevalence of risk and protective factors for fires, burns, and carbon monoxide overall, and by demographic characteristics, household structure, region, and residential tenure. The data were weighted to adjust for n...

Materials and methods We conducted a retrospective case study using two sources: 1) the Ontario Coroner’s database from 20032011; and 2) unpublished death reports between 1986 and 2000 gathered by Anaphylaxis Canada. Outcomes of interest included type of allergen, nature of reaction and treatment. Analyses included descriptive statistics and frequency analysis (quantitative data) and grounded t...

Methods A service review of adult patients admitted to the LITU. Patient demographics, complexity, time until active rehabilitation and LOS data was recorded. Active rehabilitation was defined as: active bed exercises and/or active transfer to a chair. Data was collected by the physiotherapy team on a daily basis. The data was evaluated using simple descriptive statistics (non-parametric) and S...

The objective of this article is to discuss the rationale for common statistical tests used for the analysis and interpretation of prenatal diagnostic imaging studies. Examples from the literature are used to illustrate descriptive and inferential statistics. The uses and limitations of linear and logistic regression analyses are discussed in detail.

This chapter introduces different knowledge components and indices and attempts to show their impacts on different economic and development indicators with focus on EEE and Arab economies. It uses mainly descriptive statistics and regression analysis to globally assess these performances. The sets of data used for EEE show already the data limitations faced by Arab economies.