• Contents
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  • 1. Welcome!
  • 2. The programming language R - a useful tool for linguists
  • 3. Basic knowledge about R and statistics
    • 3.1 Loading data into R
    • 3.2 Variable types
  • 4. Graphical visualization of data in R
    • 4.1 Univariate statistics
      • 4.1.1 Frequency data
      • 4.1.2 Measures of central tendency and measures of dispersion
    • 4.2 Bivariate statistics
      • 4.2.1 Frequencies of crosstabulation
      • 4.2.2 Measures of central tendencies and measures of dispersion
    • 4.3 Multivariate statistics
      • 4.3.1 Nominal/categorical variable depending on nominal/categorical variables
      • 4.3.2 Interval/ratio-scaled variable depending on two nominal/categorical variables
      • 4.3.3 Interval/ratio-scaled variable depending on interval/ratio-scaled variables
  • 5. Evaluation of the books consulted
    • 5.1 Evaluation criteria
    • 5.2 BAAYEN's Analyzing linguistic data (2008)
    • 5.3 GRIES' Quantitative corpus linguistics (2009a)
    • 5.4 GRIES' Statistics for linguistics with R (2009b)
    • 5.5 JOHNSON's Quantitative methods in linguistics (2008)
    • 5.6 Recommendations for further study
  • 6. Closing remarks
  • References