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Position. In this position paper, we claim that automatic techniques are limited in the context of quality analysis. We present a semi-automatic approach for quality analysis based on visualization.

Data collection has become a ubiquitous function of large organizations – not only for record keeping, but to support a variety of data analysis tasks that are critical to the organizational mission. Data analysis typically drives decision-making processes and efficiency optimizations, and in an increasing number of settings is the raison d’etre of entire agencies or firms. Despite the importan...

This Viewpoint addresses two issues in comparing data from humans and animals in studies of cardiovascular physiology: 1) accuracy of methods and 2) limits in extrapolating data from one species to another. You are invited to submit a brief commentary on this Viewpoint, which will be reviewed by Journal of Applied Physiology editors for possible publication in the Journal. Please limit your com...

We propose a new parametric model for continuous data, a “g-model”, on the basis of gradient maps of convex functions. It is known that any multivariate probability density on the Euclidean space is uniquely transformed to any other density by using the gradient map of a convex function. Therefore the statistical modeling for quantitative data is equivalent to design of the gradient maps. The e...

MOTIVATION We tackle the problem of finding regularities in microarray data. Various data mining tools, such as clustering, classification, Bayesian networks and association rules, have been applied so far to gain insight into gene-expression data. Association rule mining techniques used so far work on discretizations of the data and cannot account for cumulative effects. In this paper, we inve...

MOTIVATION The last few years have seen the development of DNA microarray technology that allows simultaneous measurement of the expression levels of thousands of genes. While many methods have been developed to analyze such data, most have been visualization-based. Methods that yield quantitative conclusions have been diverse and complex. RESULTS We present two straightforward methods for id...

Christopher L. Farrow,1 Chong-Yu Ruan,2 and Simon J. L. Billinge1,3,* 1Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA 2Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA 3Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA Re...

Although the typical study in psychology involves the quantitative analysis of contemporary research participants, occasionally psychologists will study historical persons or events. Moreover, these historical data may be analyzed using either qualitative or quantitative techniques. After giving examples from the subdisciplines of cognitive, developmental, differential, abnormal, and social psy...

A new method for analyzing eddy current inspection data is presented. The key concept behind this method is extraction and isolation of the sample response from the measured signal. The measured signal depends on many factors including, not only the characteristics of the probe itself, the sample material, the operation frequency, and the probe/sample geometry, but also the measurement instrume...