<html><head><meta content="Group-Office 2.04" name="GENERATOR"></head><body>Hello Corpora and Statistics Experts,<br /><br />This is a very simple question for all the corpora/statistics experts out there, but this novice is not really mathematically inclined. I understand Biber's principle of "normalization, however I am not sure about how to calculate it. I want frequency counts normalized per 1,000 words of text. I can see how to do it if the figures are even, i.e. if I have a corpus of 4,000 words and a frequency of 200, I would have a normalized figure of 50.<br /><br />But for mixed numbers, how would I calculate the following: For example if I have 2,646 instances of a certain kind of noun in a corpus of 55,166 how would I calculate the normalized figure per 1,000 words?<br /><br />Regards,<br /><br />Jenny<br />Research Assistant<br />Dept. of English & Communication<br />City University of Hong Kong<br /><br />
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