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size=3>It is not uncommon in quantitative corpus linguistic studies that a
significance test cannot be performed either because one cannot juxtapose the
distribution of a variable against the distribution of another comparable
variable or against a specific distribution (e.g. normal distribution,
exponential, etc.) or against an a priory stipulated value. To
nonetheless assess whether the distribution in the sample is simply due to
chance or a reflection of the true distribution in the population, statisticians
often use the bootstrap method. This method is a resampling method: from the
sample, a large number of resamples are drawn randomly and with
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size=3>Is anyone aware of any (corpus) linguistic study/studies which has/have
used this method?<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3>Many thanks in advance<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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