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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)