[Corpora-List] Significance test for TTR

[Angus Grieve-Smith]

Good question!  Before you even bother testing for significance, you need a random sample - or in your case, random samples of two populations.  Are your samples random?  If not, statistical significance is impossible, so don't waste time on it.

- Angus B. Grieve-Smith
grvsmth at panix.com

CRuehlemann at aol.com wrote:

>Hi all,  
>
>The type token ratio (TTR) is a measure of the lexical diversity of a  
>text/text type. If one finds in two texts/text types two widely differing TTRs,  
>one would like to assess the significance of this finding.
> 
>Which test is appropriate for differences between TTRs?
> 
>Best
>Chris 
>
>_______________________________________________
>UNSUBSCRIBE from this page: http://mailman.uib.no/options/corpora
>Corpora mailing list
>Corpora at uib.no
>http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/corpora/attachments/20111120/a84dfe79/attachment.htm>
-------------- next part --------------
_______________________________________________
UNSUBSCRIBE from this page: http://mailman.uib.no/options/corpora
Corpora mailing list
Corpora at uib.no
http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora