语言研究中的统计学

    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 aubhors give a wide variety of linguixtic examples to demonstrate the use of statistics in summarising data in the most appropriate way,and then making helpful inferences form the processed information.
Students and resesarchers in many fields of linguistics will find this book an invaluable introduction to the use of statistics,and a practical text tor the development of skils in the application of statistics.

    

    

Preface by Halliday
王宗炎序
导读
Preface
1 Why do linguists need statistics?
2 Tables and graphs
2.1 Categorical data
2.2 Numerical data
2.3 Multi-Way tables
2.4 Special cases
Summary
Exercises
3 Summary measures
3.1 The median
3.2 The arithmetic mean
3.3 The mean and the median compared
3.4 Means of proportions and percentages
3.5 Variability or dispersion
3.6 Central intervals
3.7 The variance and the standard deviation
3.8 Standardising test scores
Summary
Exercises
4 Statistical inference
4.1 The problem
4.2 Populations
4.3 The theoretical solution
4.4 The pragmatic solution
Summary
Exercises
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5 Probability
6 Modeling statistical populations
7 Estimating form samples
8 Testing hypotheses about population values
9 Testing the fit of models to data
10 Measuring the degree of interdependence between
11 Testing for differences between two populations
12 Analysis of variance-ANOVA
13 Linear regression
14 Searching for groups and clusters
15 Princial components analysis and factor andlysis