Fwd: Re: Atkinson on phoneme inventories in Science

[Bill Croft]

[Balthasar Bickel asked me to forward this to Lingtyp - Bill]


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>From: Balthasar Bickel <autotype at uni-leipzig.de>
>Subject: Re: Atkinson on phoneme inventories in Science
>Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 19:06:49 +0200
>To: Bill Croft <wcroft at UNM.EDU>
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>On Apr 21, 2011, at 6:41 PM, Bill Croft wrote:
>>  Simpson's Paradox. I checked the indexes of the two statistics 
>>textbooks I have by linguists (Woods et al. 1986 and Baayen 2008), 
>>and my wife's university statistics textbook (Hays 1988); none of 
>>them listed Simpson's Paradox. I'm afraid that for me or any 
>>linguist to learn more about statistics means reading books written 
>>by nonlinguists, taking courses from nonlinguists, and/or 
>>consulting with nonlinguists.
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>A good discussion of Simpson's paradox can be found in Agresti's 
>classic textbook "Categorical data analysis" which I recommend 
>anyway because as linguists we often analyze categorical data... 
>(and, yes, we obviously need stats as soon as we start to count or 
>measure something. One shouldn't have to say this.)
>
>	- Balthasar