Statistics in Language Studies

Name: Statistics in Language Studies
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ISBN: 9780521253260

ISBN-10: 0521253268

ISBN-13: 9780521253260

Edition: 1986

Authors: Anthony Woods, Paul Fletcher, Arthur Hughes

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This book demonstrates the contribution that statistics can and should make to linguistic studies. The range of work to which statistical analysis is applicable is vast: including, for example, language acquisition, language variation and many aspects of applied linguistics. The authors give a wide variety of linguistic examples to demonstrate the use of statistics in summarising data in the most appropriate way, and then making helpful inferences from the processed information. The range of techniques introduced by the book will help the reader both to evaluate and make use of literature which employs statistical analysis, and to apply statistics in their own research. Each chapter gives…

Book details

List price: $175.00
Copyright year: 1986
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 8/14/1986
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.21" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Preface



Why do linguists need statistics?



Tables and graphs



Summary measures



Statistical inference



Probability



Modelling statistical populations



Estimating from samples



Testing hypotheses about population values



Testing the fit of models to data



Measuring the degree of interdependence between two variables



Testing for differences between two populations



Analysis of variance - ANOVA



Linear regression



Searching for groups and clusters



Principal components analysis and factor analysis


Appendices


References


Index