19.786, Books: Discipline of Ling/Text&Corpus Ling: Baayen

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Subject: 19.786, Books: Discipline of Ling/Text&Corpus Ling: Baayen

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Date: 07-Mar-2008
From: Daniel Davies < ddavies at cambridge.org >
Subject: Analyzing Linguistic Data: Baayen

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Title: Analyzing Linguistic Data 
Subtitle: A Practical Introduction to Statistics using R 
Publication Year: 2008 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://us.cambridge.org

Author: Harald Baayen

Hardback: ISBN:  9780521882590 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 105.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9780521882590 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 55.00
Paperback: ISBN:  9780521709187 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 19.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9780521709187 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 38.99

Abstract:

Statistical analysis is a useful skill for linguists and psycholinguists,
allowing them to understand the quantitative structure of their data. This
textbook provides a straightforward introduction to the statistical
analysis of language. Designed for linguists with a non-mathematical
background, it clearly introduces the basic principles and methods of
statistical analysis, using 'R', the leading computational statistics
programme. The reader is guided step-by-step through a range of real data
sets, allowing them to analyse acoustic data, construct grammatical trees
for a variety of languages, quantify register variation in corpus
linguistics, and measure experimental data using state-of-the-art models.
The visualization of data plays a key role, both in the initial stages of
data exploration and later on when the reader is encouraged to criticize
various models. Containing over 40 exercises with model answers, this book
will be welcomed by all linguists wishing to learn more about working with
and presenting quantitative data. 

1. An introduction to 'R'; 2. Graphic data exploration; 3. Probability
distributions; 4. Basic statistical methods; 5. Clustering and
classification; 6. Regression modeling; 7. Mixed models; Appendix A.
Solutions to the exercises; Appendix B. Overview of 'R' functions. 

Linguistic Field(s): Discipline of Linguistics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

Written In: English  (eng)

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