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Wilder, John; Feldman, Jacob; Singh, Manish – Cognition, 2011
This paper investigates the classification of shapes into broad natural categories such as "animal" or "leaf". We asked whether such coarse classifications can be achieved by a simple statistical classification of the shape skeleton. We surveyed databases of natural shapes, extracting shape skeletons and tabulating their…
Descriptors: Classification, Statistics, Experiments, Bayesian Statistics
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Information Management and Technology Div. – 1990
This report presents the results of an investigation which evaluated the Department of Education's data base on Stafford Loans and discusses how the Department can use the information to prevent loan abuses. The investigation's findings reveal that loan defaulters may have obtained about $109 million in new loans, and that students received…
Descriptors: College Students, Databases, Evaluation Methods, Federal Programs