Statistics for linguistics with R : a practical introduction / by Stefan Th. Gries.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gries, Stefan Thomas, 1970-

Series:

Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 208.

Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs, 1861-4302 ; 208

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Linguistics--Statistical methods.

Linguistics.

R (Computer program language).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Chapter 1 Some fundamentals of empirical research

Chapter 2 Fundamentals of R

Chapter 3 Descriptive statistics

Chapter 4 Analytical statistics

Chapter 5 Selected multifactorial methods

Chapter 6 Epilog

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9786613398512

9783110205640

3110205645

9781283398510

1283398516

OCLC:

753480604