We both wanted to do more than just explain that we cannot simply rank hospitals by their raw survival rates – we also wanted to explain how we can learn from hospital survival rates and to make it easy for people to explore the statistics in an intuitive way.
To shed light on this conundrum, we view the problem from an efficient coding standpoint, asking the question, Are these parallel streams in the retina efficient strategies for encoding natural signals? To answer this question, we explore the statistics of the natural visual signal.
The Web site has a rich set of visualization tools that allow visitors to explore the statistics for specific conditions, age groups, and time periods.
By taking any particular scene obtained in this way to be made up of a set of concatenated surface patches, we were able to explore the statistics of scene roughness, size-distance relationships, surface orientation and local curvature, as well as the independent components of natural surfaces.
Motivated by our recent results and by previous work indicative of the role of motor variability in anticipatory strategies of intended behaviors here we explore the statistics of velocity dependent parameters in supportive motions of martial arts routines across experts and novices.
