The problem of outliers is well-known in statistics: an outlier is a value that is far from the general distribution of the other observed values, and can often perturb the results of a statistical analysis. Various procedures exist for identifying outliers, in case they need to receive special treatment, which in some cases can be exclusion from consideration. An inlier, by contrast, is an obs...

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since the formulation of rulings is directly related to the refinement of issues, the present paper aims at outlining the extent of a mental disorder namely dementia, so that from this perspective an acceptable separation between this and other psychiatric disorders can be achieved in the realm of jurisprudence. evaluation of narratives, comparing jurisprudential rulings issued in the case of p...

We have explored pattern recognition by examining how observers identify letters. We expected 26-way classification of familiar forms to challenge the popular notion of independent feature detection (“probability summation”), but find instead that this theory parsimoniously accounts for our results. We measured the contrast required for identification of a letter briefly presented in visual noi...