Statistics In Language Studies (cambridge Textbooks In Linguistics)
by Arthur Hughes /
1986 / English / DjVu
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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 step-by-step
explanations of particular techniques using examples from a number
of fields, and is followed by extensive exercises. The early part
of the book provides a thorough grounding in probability and
statistical inference, and then progresses through methods such as
chi-squared and analysis of variance, to multivariate methods such
as cluster analysis, principal components analysis and factor
analysis. None of these techniques requires the reader to have a
grasp of mathematics more complex than simple algebra. Students and
researchers in many fields of linguistics will find this book an
invaluable introduction to the use of statistics, and a practical
text for the development of skills in the application of
statistics.
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 step-by-step
explanations of particular techniques using examples from a number
of fields, and is followed by extensive exercises. The early part
of the book provides a thorough grounding in probability and
statistical inference, and then progresses through methods such as
chi-squared and analysis of variance, to multivariate methods such
as cluster analysis, principal components analysis and factor
analysis. None of these techniques requires the reader to have a
grasp of mathematics more complex than simple algebra. Students and
researchers in many fields of linguistics will find this book an
invaluable introduction to the use of statistics, and a practical
text for the development of skills in the application of
statistics.
