Statistical Analysis of Television Style:
What Can Numbers Tell Us About TV Editing?

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• Butler, Jeremy G. "Statistical Analysis of Television Style: What Can Numbers Tell Us About TV Editing?" Cinema Journal 54, no. 1 (Fall 2014), 25-45.

Data

Right-click a link below to download an Excel data file.

• Data set for Figure 7 "US Narrative TV Programs: Annual Median Shot Length (MSL) vs. Average Shot Length (ASL): USNarrativeTVPrograms.xlsx
• Data set for Table 2 "Comparison of Happy Days Shot Data": ComparisonofHappyDaysShotData.xlsx
  • Includes the article's t-test. Hybrid episodes' data were deleted and single-camera episodes' data are separated from multiple-camera ones.
• Raw data for all Happy Days' episodes from seasons 1-4: RawDataForAllHappyDaysEpisodes_Seasons1-4.xlsx

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