David Lane

Mission Plan Recovery for Increasing Vehicle Autonomy (2009)

Pedro Patrón, Jonathan Evans, David Lane

Autonomy for autonomous vehicles is achieved at the level of decision making. This paper discusses the lack of autonomous decision making in current unmanned vehicle platforms. Although current...

Percentiles (2008)

David Lane

This module gives the definition of percentile along with several examples

Box Plots (2008)

David Lane

Introduction to box plots.

A New Perspective on Innovation and Social Change. (2008)

Douglas R. White, David Lane, Geoff West, Denise Pumain

The ability to specify models of social processes in relatively precise terms proves to be central to historical dynamics and to a macro-approach to innovation and social change as well as to...

FORESIGHT, COMPLEXITY AND STRATEGY (2007)

David Lane, Robert Maxfield, Win Farrell, Dick Foster, John Hagel, Franco Malerba, ...

What is a strategy? The answer to this question ought to depend on the foresight horizon: how far ahead, and how much, the strategist thinks he can foresee. When the very structure of the firm's...

The Innovation Innovation (2007)

Read, Dwight W, Van Der Leeuw, Sander E, Lane, David

We seek explanation for how a species with our complex social systems could have arisen. We argue that an "innovation innovation" took place during hominin evolution that decoupled organizational...

History of Normal Distribution (2007)

David Lane

This module introduces the history of the normal curve.

Normal Approximation to the Binomial (2006)

David Lane

The binomial distribution can be found by using a normal area calculator or by five simple steps.

What are Statistics? (2005)

David Lane

This module describes the various ways the term "statistics" is used.

and (2005)

John F. Padgett, Paul D. Mclean, Ron Burt, William Caferro, Samuel Cohn, Nick Collier, ...

Acknowledgements: We are very grateful for the stimulating criticism and support we have received over a number of years about this research from Andy Abbott, Skye Bender-deMoll,

L'ombra del potere (2005)

Lane, David

L'ombra del potere, David Lane, traduzione di Fabio Galimberti. . - Bari. NALUAF00001001, Laterza. NAEDAF003231, 2005.

Berlusconi’s shadow (2005)

Lane, David

Berlusconi’s shadow, crime, justice and the pursuit of power, David Lane. . - London, Penguin. 2005.

Frequency Polygons (2004)

David Lane

Introduction to frequency polygons.

Areas of Normal Distributions (2004)

David Lane

Ways to compute the area under a normal distribution using a non-calculus approach.

p53 from pathway to therapy (2004)

Lane, David

In the 25 years since its first description the p53 protein has been shown to play a key role in both tumour suppression and aging. New discoveries about the function and control of p53 continue to...

Variables (2003)

David Lane

This module gives definitions and examples of the different types of variables used in psychology experiments.

Basic Concepts (2003)

David Lane

This module contains a review of the basic concepts of probability.

Standard Normal (2003)

David Lane

This module introduces standard normal distribution and standardizing the distribution.

Stem and Leaf Displays (2003)

David Lane

Introduction to stem and leaf plots.

Descriptive Statistics (2003)

David Lane

Learn what descriptive statistics are and see several applications of them.

Base Rates (2003)

David Lane

Finding the true probability of an event taking into account misses, false positives, and base rates. Also, using Bayes' Theorem.

Introduction to Normal Distributions (2003)

David Lane

Normal distributions are commonly used in Statitics. While normal distributions can be quite different, they can all be represented mathematically and they all have six distinct features that will be...

Line Graphs (2003)

David Lane

This module teaches you the basics of line graphs in representing data.

Histograms (2003)

David Lane

Introduction to histograms.

Levels of Measurement (2003)

David Lane

This module discusses the different scales used in statistical analysis and what levels of measurement are used in psychological variables. The terms discussed are Nominal, Ordinal, Interval, and...

Inferential Statistics (2003)

David Lane

Introduction to inferential statistics.

Importance of Statistics (2003)

David Lane

Importance of statistics.

Bar Charts (2003)

David Lane

Introduction to bar charts.

Sampling Distribution of Difference Between Means (2003)

David Lane

This module discusses sampling distribution of difference between means.

Sampling Distribution of Pearson's r (2003)

David Lane

This module discusses sampling distribution of Pearson's r.

Sampling Distribution of the Mean (2003)

David Lane

This module discusses sampling distribution of the mean.

Introduction to Sampling Distributions (2003)

David Lane

This module introduces sampling distributions, such as discrete distributions, continuous distributions. It also talks about the importance of sampling distributions to inferential statistics.

Coherent probability from incoherent judgment (2001)

Daniel Osherson, David Lane, Peter Hartley, Richard R. Batsell

People often have knowledge about the chances of events but are unable to express their knowledge in the form of coherent probabilities. This study proposed to correct incoherent judgment via an...

Coherent Probability From Incoherent Judgment (2000)

Daniel Osherson, David Lane, Peter Hartley, Richard R. Batsell

People often have knowledge about the chances of events but are unable to express the knowledge in the form of coherent probabilities. We propose to correct incoherent judgment via an optimization...

Enhanced Line Integral Convolution with Flow Feature Detection (1997)

Arthur Okada, David Lane

The Line Integral Convolution (LIC) method, which blurs white noise textures along a vector field, is an effective way to visualize overall flow patterns in a 2D domain [Cabral & Leedom ‘93]....

Enhanced Line Integral Convolution with Flow Feature Detection (1997)

Arthur Okada, David Lane

The Line Integral Convolution (LIC) method, which blurs white noise textures along a vector field, is an effective way to visualize overall flow patterns in a 2D domain [Cabral & Leedom `93]. The...

Choice and Action (1996)

David Lane, Franco Malerba, Robert Maxfield, Michael Cohen, Jim Dickey, Stuart Dreyfus, ...

In this essay, we argue that rational choice (RC) provides an inadequate foundation for a theory of economic action. After defining RC sufficiently broadly to encompass much of the bounded...

Decision Rules and Market Share: Aggregation in an Information Contagion Model (1996)

LANE, DAVID, VESCOVINI, ROBERTA

In the Arthur—Lane information contagion model, agents choose sequentially between two competing products, basing their decisions upon information obtained from a sample of previous adopters. The...

Using confidence intervals in within-subject designs (1994)

Canadian Nserc, Grant Ogp, Steve Edgell, Rich Gonzalez, David Lane, ...

Wolford, and two anonymous reviewers for very useful comments on earlier drafts of the manuscript. Correspondence may be addressed to

Las Raíces del Comunismo Ruso : Un Estudio Social e Histórico de la Socialdemocracia Rusa (1898-1907) / D. Lane ; tr. por Jorge Ferrero. (1977)

Lane, David

Traducción de: The Roots of Russich Communism. A Social and Historical Study of Russian Social-Democracy 1898-1907

Liability Rules, Limited Information, and the Role of Precedent

Robert Cooter, Lewis Kornhauser, David Lane

Recent studies of the role of law in distributing accident costs have led to the pessimistic conclusion that because judges lack the information to discover the efficient level of care, efficiency...

Ontological uncertainty and innovation

David Lane, Robert Maxfield

This paper explores the relationship between uncertainty and innovation. It distinguishes three kinds of uncertainty: truth uncertainty, semantic uncertainty, and ontological uncertainty, the latter...

Transcription Factor E2F-1 Is Upregulated in Response to DNA Damage in a Manner Analogous to That of p53

Blattner, Christine, Sparks, Alison, Lane, David

The transcription factor E2F-1 directs the expression of genes that induce or regulate cell division, and a role for E2F-1 in driving cells into apoptosis is the subject of intense discussion....

Protective Role for H-NS Protein in IS1 Transposition

Rouquette, Claudine, Serre, Marie-Claude, Lane, David

The transposase (InsAB′) of the insertion element IS1 can create breaks in DNA that lead to induction of the SOS response. We have used the SOS response to InsAB′ to screen for host mutations...

ParABS Systems of the Four Replicons of Burkholderia cenocepacia: New Chromosome Centromeres Confer Partition Specificity†

Dubarry, Nelly, Pasta, Franck, Lane, David

Most bacterial chromosomes carry an analogue of the parABS systems that govern plasmid partition, but their role in chromosome partition is ambiguous. parABS systems might be particularly important...

Is what is good for each good for all? Individual rationality and social efficiency in an information contagion model

David Lane

When new competing products enter a market, a variety of informational and structural mechanisms may play a role in determining the market shares that each product will obtain. In this talk, I...

Extended Function of Plasmid Partition Genes: the Sop System of Linear Phage-Plasmid N15 Facilitates Late Gene Expression▿

Ravin, Nikolai V., Rech, Jérôme, Lane, David

The mitotic stability of the linear plasmid-prophage N15 of Escherichia coli depends on a partition system closely related to that of the F plasmid SopABC. The two Sop systems are distinguished...

Foresight, Complexity, and Strategy

David Lane, Robert Maxfield

What is a strategy? The answer to this question ought to depend on the foresight horizon: how far ahead, and how much, the strategist thinks he can forsee. When the very structure of the firm's world...

When Optimization Isn't Optimal: Aggregation and Information Contagion

David Lane, Roberta Vescovini

In the information contagion context, agents choose sequentially between two competing products, basing their decisions upon information obtained from a sample of previous adopters. The market shares...

Choice and Action

David Lane, Franco Malerba, Robert Maxfield, Luigi Orsenigo

In this essay, we argue that the rational choice (RC) provides an inadequate foundation for a theory of economic action. After defining RC sufficiently broadly to encompass much of the bounded...

Rice virtual lab in statistics

David Lane

This site is devoted to statistical tests and demonstrations of their use and was created with the support of the National Science Foundation. One section is a complete reference guide - the online...