Binding: Paperback
Description: Traditional approaches focused on significance tests have often been difficult for linguistics researchers to visualise. Statistics in Corpus Linguistics Research: A New Approach breaks these significance tests down for researchers in corpus linguistics and linguistic analysis promoting a visual approach to understanding the performance of tests with real data and demonstrating how to derive new intervals and tests. Accessibly written this book discusses the why behind the statistical model allowing readers a greater facility for choosing their own methodologies. Accessibly written for those with little to no mathematical or statistical background it explains the mathematical fundamentals of simple significance tests by relating them to confidence intervals. With sample datasets and easy - to - read visuals this book focuses on practical issues such as how to: pose research questions in terms of choice and constraint; employ confidence intervals correctly (including in graph plots); select optimal significance tests (and what results mean); measure the size of the effect of one variable on another; estimate the similarity of distribution patterns; and evaluate whether the results of two experiments significantly differ. Appropriate for anyone from the student just beginning their career to the seasoned researcher this book is both a practical overview and valuable resource.
Title: Statistics In Corpus Linguistics Research A New Approach
Author(s): Wallis Sean
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9781138589384
Pages: 356 Pages, 73 Tables, Black And White; 135 Line Drawings, Black And White; 135 Illustrations, Black
Publication Date: 11/23/2020
Category: Research Methods: General