I've taught with Baayen and Johnson, but also got a lot out of the
notes in Christopher Manning's class notes
(http://nlp.stanford.edu/~manning/courses/ling289/ling289-2007-syllabus.htm)
I particularly learned a lot from his notes on logistic regression,
which is a nice extended worked example with R commands and data.
SFK
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 02:00:52PM -0400, Christopher wrote:
> From: Christopher <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:00:52 -0400
> To: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: discussion on statistics
> Keith Johnson's book is an excellent reference, Claire, and I have
> gotten a lot of Baayen's book as well.
> As Scott points out, though, the approach used by R means that it is
> difficult to get everything in one book. There are potentially better
> ways to perform RM-ANOVAs, logistic regression and other tests than
> those illustrated in these books. These methods are found quite simply
> by Googling the applicable test. For people who like stats, this
> actually turns out to be kind of fun.
--
Scott F. Kiesling, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Linguistics
University of Pittsburgh, 2816 CL
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
http://www.linguistics.pitt.edu
Office: +1 412-624-5916
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