Dear All,
One thing that hasn't yet been mentioned (not that I recall anyway) is visiting your local statistician who will be more than happy to look at your data! All of the ones I have visited in the past have been wonderful and feel more valued that statistics is being applied in other disciplines.
Sincerely,
Meredith Josey, Ph.D.
Department of English
Western Washington University
MS 9055
516 High Street
Bellingham, WA. 98255
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Subject: Re: discussion on statistics
One book that hasn't been mentioned yet that I have found useful is
Keith Johnson's Quantitative Linguistics book. It has lots of examples
using R but they are all geared to different subfields of linguistics.
It's also less technical than Gries' or Baayen's books. It's therefore
good as a first book that will get you set up in R, working through
examples of relevance to linguistics, and that then scaffolds
knowledge for other books.
Claire
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Moore, John <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I've been enjoying this thread on statistics - thanks to the contributors (don't switch me to the digest - I just filter messages to a folder :-) ).
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> There are a lot of us out here, with years as professional linguists who now, late in life, realize we need to learn something about this, but lack the training. We've been trained in various areas of theoretical linguistics, but now are faced with research questions that require quantitative techniques. Several of my colleagues and I have been struggling to get a handle on what we need to do to come up to speed. Unfortunately, it isn't that easy - we understand the need to understand enough of the underpinnings to avoid the simple 'plug and chug' type of research, but having diverse mathematical and programming backgrounds (and usually what we had was some 30-40 years ago), reading and really understanding the books that are out there, getting up to speed with R, etc., is a challenge - all in our extensive free time, of course. Nevertheless we persevere - discussions like this help orient our efforts.
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> John Moore
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