On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:26:09 +0100, Alan Penn <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>By the way, and as an aside, I think Lucas is wrong to suggest that
>the syntax field suffers from poor use of statistics. In my
>experience, in our kind of field, syntax does at least DO statistics.
>Most other persuasions don't even have methods to represent the object
>they are interested in, let alone to quantify the morphology of
>interest, and consequently cant even suffer from poor use of
>statistics. Granted the statistics that tend to be used are relatively
>simple and unsophisticated, but simple statistics are often the most
>appropriate for the purpose.
>
>Alan
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