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Statistics for Linguists
How can I use statistics to do linguistics?
Books:
The foundations of statistics: a simulation-based approach
. Shravan Vasishth and Michael Broe. draft 7/17/09.
local copy
Quantitative methods in linguistics. Keith Johnson.
Blackwell
, 2008.
Computer stuff:
R
the
counts.perl
script, the
BROWN-CORPUS-TAGGED.gz
German-language
proficiency scores
january 24th
handout
, january 27th
handout
february 1st
handout
``central tendency",
february 3rd ``normal''
the
hist.with.normal.R
function
february 8th
probability notes
,
slides
, other
slides
about Vasishth/Broe chapter 2
february 15th
expectation slides
,
Central Limit Theorem handout
february 17th
SEM slides
february 22nd
handout
,
tcrit slide
february 24th two-sample
handout
march 1st
correlation
handout,
englishgreek
data, march 3rd
regression
handout
march 8th multiple regression
slides
, march 10th PCA
slides
Johnson's
regression.txt
the
studrecs.txt
march 15th intro to ANOVA
handout
wfr223.txt
data, march 17th applications of ANOVA
slides
march 29 repeated measures
handout
, march 31st
slides
about transforms
april 5th
handout
on chi-square,
slides
on logistic regression
april 12th
slides
on lexicostatistics, april 14th multidimensional scaling
slides
,
3dspace.txt
Shepard on
speech sounds
april 19th
slides
of hierarchical/mixed-effects models
lengths in words of some phrase types in the Brown corpus (
W. Nelson Francis
and
Henry Kucera
)
noun phrases
verb phrases
Final Projects: due 5pm Friday May 21st
Instructor
John Hale
Meeting Time
Mondays & Wednesdays 2:55-4:10pm
Location
Morrill Hall
room 111
Office hours
Thursday 2-4pm Morrill 217
Prerequisites
none