Basic statistics
1 INTRODUCTION This chapter will commence with an account of descriptive statistics, described by Battus (de Haan and van Hout 1986) as the useful loss of information. It also involves abstracting data. In any experimental situation we are presented with countable or measurable events such as the presence or degree of a linguistic feature in a corpus. Descriptive statistics enable one to summari..
Corpus Linguistics
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