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Statistics for Linguists

by David Eddington

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Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / GeneralSocial Science / Research

Description

Linguists with no background in statistics will find this book to be an accessible introduction to statistics. Concepts are explained in non-technical terms, and mathematical formulas are kept to a minimum. The book incorporates SPSS, which is a statistics package that incorporates a point and click interface rather than complex line-commands. Step-by-step instructions are provided for some of the most widely used statistics in linguistics. At the same time, the concepts behind each procedure are also explained. Traditional analyses such as ANOVA and t-tests are included in the book, but linguistic data is often not amenable to such analyses. For this reason, non-parametric and mixed-effects procedures are also introduced.

Book Details

Publisher:
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published:
2016-01-14
Pages:
190
Language:
EN
ISBN:
9781443887762