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.
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Preface by HaUiday 王宗炎序 導(dǎo)讀 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 Themedian 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 Theproblem 4.2 Populations 4.3 The theoretical solution 4.4 The pragmatic solution Summary Exercises 5 Probability 5.1 Probability 5.2 Statistical independence and conditional probability 5.3 Probability and discrete numerical random variables 5.4 Probability and continuous random variables 5.5 Random sampling and random number tables Summary Exercises 6 Modelling statistical populations 6.1 A simple statistical model 6.2 The sample mean and the importance of sample size 6.3 A model of random variation: the normal distribution 6.4 Using tables of the normal distribution Summary Exercises 7 Estimating from samples 7.1 Point estimators for population parameters 7.2 Confidenceintervais 7.3 Estimating a proportion 7.4 Confidence intervals based on small samples 7.5 Sample size 7.5.1 Central Limit Theorem 7.5.2 When the data are not independent 7.5.3 Confidence intervals 7.5.4 More than one level of sampling 7.5.5 Sample size to obtain a required precision 7.6 Different confidence levels Summary Exercises 8 Testing hypotheses about population values 8.1 Using the confidence interval to test a hypothesis 8.2 The concept of a test statistic 8.3 The classical hypothesis test and an example 8.4 How to use statistical tests of hypotheses: is significance significant 8.4.1 The value of the test statistic is significant at the z% level 8.4.2 The value of the test statistic is not significant Summary Exercises 9 Testing the fit of models to data 9.1 Testing how well a complete model fits the data 9.2 Testing how well a type of model fits the data 9.3 Testing the model of independence 9.4 Problems and pitfalls of the chi-squared test 9.4.1 Smallexpected frequencies 9.4.2 The 2 x 2 contingency table 9.4.3 Independence of the observations 9.4.4 Testing several tables from the same study 9.4.5 The use of percentages Summary Exercises 10 Measuring the degree of interdependence between two variables 10.1 The concept of covariance 10.2 The correlation coefficient 10.3 Testing hypotheses about the correlation coefficient 10.4 A confidence interval for a correlation coefficient 10.5 Comparing correlations 10.6 Interpreting the sample correlation coefficient 10.7 Rank correlations Summary Exercises 11 Testing for differences between two populations 11.1 Independent samples: testing for differences between means 11.2 Independent samples: comparing two variances 11.3 Independent samples: comparing two proportions 11.4 Paired samples: comparing two means 11.5 Relaxing the assumptions of normality and equal var- iance: nonparametrie tests 11.6 The power of different tests Summary Exercises 12 Analysis of variance- ANOVA 12.1 Comparing several means simultaneously: one-way ANOVA 12.2 Two-way ANOVA: randomised blocks 12.3 Two-way ANOVA: factorial experiments 12.4 ANOVA: main effects only 12.5 ANOVA: factorial experiments 12.6 Fixed and random effects 12.7 Test score reliability and ANOVA 12.8 Further commentson ANOVA 12.8.1 Transforming the data 12.8.2 ''Within-subject''ANOVAs Summary Exercises 13 Linear regression 13.1 The simple linear regression model 13.2 Estimating the parameters in a linear regression 13.3 The benefits from fitting a linear regression 13.4 Testing the significance of a linear regression 13.5 Confidence intervals for predicted values 13.6 Assumptions made when fitting a linear regression 13.7 Extrapolating from linear models 13.8 Using more than one independent variable: multiple regression 13.9 Deciding on the number of independent variables 13.10 The correlation matrix and partial correlation 13.11 Linearising relationships by transforming the data 13.12 Generalised linear models Summary Exercises 14 Searching for groups and clusters 14.1 Multivariate analysis 14.2 The dissimilarity matrix 14.3 Hierarchical cluster analysis 14.4 General remarks about hierarchical clustering 14.5 Non-hierarchical clustering 14.6 Multidimensional scaling 14.7 Further comments on multidimensional scaling 14.8 Linear discriminant analysis 14.9 The linear discriminant function for two groups 14.10 Probabilities of misclassification Summary Exercises 15 Principal components analysis and factor analysis 15.1 Reducing the dimensionality of multivariate data 15.2 Principal components analysis 15.3 A principal components analysis of language test scores 15.4 Deciding on the dimensionality of the data 15.5 Interpreting the principal components 15.6 Principal components of the correlation matrix 15.7 Covariance matrix or correlation matrix 15.8 Factor analysis Summary Appendix A Statistical tables Appendix B Statistical computation Appendix C Answers to some of the exercises References Index 文庫索引