Statistics for Linguistics with R: A Practical Introduction

Stefan Th. Gries

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2009

Statistics for Linguistics with R

A Practical Introduction

Stefan Th. Gries

Volume 208 in the series Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110216042

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About this book

This book is an introduction to statistics for linguists using the open source software R. It is aimed at students and instructors/professors with little or no statistical background and is written in a non-technical and reader-friendly/accessible style.

It first introduces in detail the overall logic underlying quantitative studies: exploration, hypothesis formulation and operationalization, and the notion and meaning of significance tests. It then introduces some basics of the software R relevant to statistical data analysis. A chapter on descriptive statistics explains how summary statistics for frequencies, averages, and correlations are generated with R and how they are graphically represented best. A chapter on analytical statistics explains how statistical tests are performed in R on the basis of many different linguistic case studies: For nearly every single example, it is explained what the structure of the test looks like, how hypotheses are formulated, explored, and tested for statistical significance, how the results are graphically represented, and how one would summarize them in a paper/article. A chapter on selected multifactorial methods introduces how more complex research designs can be studied: methods for the study of multifactorial frequency data, correlations, tests for means, and binary response data are discussed and exemplified step-by-step. Also, the exploratory approach of hierarchical cluster analysis is illustrated in detail.

The book comes with many exercises, boxes with short think breaks and warnings, recommendations for further study, and answer keys as well as a statistics for linguists newsgroup on the companion website.

The volume is aimed at beginners on every level of linguistic education: undergraduate students, graduate students, and instructors/professors and can be used in any research methods and statistics class for linguists. It presupposes no quantitative/statistical knowledge whatsoever and, unlike most competing books, begins at step 1 for every method and explains everything explicitly.

Author / Editor information

Stefan Th. Gries, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.

Reviews

"Gries has diligently compiled a work of great use and interest. It is relevant
above all to linguistic students and researchers, and can readily act as a
textbook for taught courses. It should be noted that the book is equally useful
as a reference guide, with the analysis scenarios sufficiently well labelled and
organized so that the reader can dip into it as and when necessary, or as a
complete set of exercises which the reader can work through section by section."
Andrew Caines in: Linguist List 22.412

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(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Beginners at every level of Linguistic Education, Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, and Instructors/Professors, can be used in any Research Methods and Statistics class for Linguists
Pages
- Front matter: 10
- Main content: 335
Keywords: Corpus Linguistics; Statistic Analysis; Linguistic Data

eBook

Published: December 15, 2009
ISBN: 9783110216042

Hardcover

Published: December 11, 2009
ISBN: 9783110205640