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Publications (3)
cs.HC2023
Visualization According to Statisticians: An Interview Study on the Role of Visualization for Inferential Statistics
Eric Newburger, Niklas Elmqvist
Statisticians are not only one of the earliest professional adopters of data visualization, but also some of its most prolific users. Understanding how these professionals utilize…
cs.HC2023
Fitting Bell Curves to Data Distributions using Visualization
Eric Newburger, Michael Correll, Niklas Elmqvist
Idealized probability distributions, such as normal or other curves, lie at the root of confirmatory statistical tests. But how well do people understand these idealized curves? In…
cs.HC2023
Comparing Overlapping Data Distributions Using Visualization
Eric Newburger, Niklas Elmqvist
We present results from a preregistered and crowdsourced user study where we asked members of the general population to determine whether two samples represented using different fo…