extracting random sample of utterances

[Brian MacWhinney]

Dear Caro,
      Javier is right that the programs can't do this now.  His Excel
method sounds like a good approach.
I am guessing that the VOCD program does some randomization too.  If
Leonid gets a break from other
things, we may talk about how hard this would be to implement.

--Brian


On Jul 20, 2004, at 9:00 AM, crowland at liverpool.ac.uk wrote:

> Hi all,
> Is it possible to get one of the CLAN programs to extract random
> samples of
> utterances from a directory of transcripts?
>
> What I want to do is to extract a random sample of 100 CHI utterances
> from some
> transcripts, analyse these, then extract another random sample of 100
> CHI
> utterances (from the same transcripts) and analyse these etc.  Then do
> the same
> for a random sample of 200 CHI utterances, 300 etc.  The rational
> behind this is
> an investigation of the effect of sample size on analyses.
>
> Thanks
>
> Caro
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