Sean Wallis – författare

Traditional approaches focused on significance tests have often been difficult for linguistics researchers to visualise. Statistics in Corpus Linguistics Research: A New Approach breaks significance tests down for researchers in corpus linguistics and linguistic analysis, promoting a visual approach to understanding the performance of tests with real data, and demonstrating how to derive new confidence intervals and tests.This fully revised second edition includes a brand-new chapter describing a novel extended ‘MOVER’ method to derive accurate confidence intervals for numerous properties. With sample datasets and easy-to-read visuals, this book focuses on practical issues, such as how topose meaningful research questions in terms of choice and constraintemploy confidence intervals correctly (including in graph plots)select a significance test (and interpret its results)construct confidence intervals for functions of independent proportionsmeasure the size of the effect of one variable on another or the similaritybetween two distributions; andevaluate whether the results of two experiments significantly differAppropriate for anyone from the student just beginning their career to the seasoned researcher, this book is both a practical overview and valuable resource.A website with downloadable resources for the calculations in this book is published at https://corplingstats.wordpress.com/siclr

Traditional approaches focused on significance tests have often been difficult for linguistics researchers to visualise. Statistics in Corpus Linguistics Research: A New Approach breaks significance tests down for researchers in corpus linguistics and linguistic analysis, promoting a visual approach to understanding the performance of tests with real data, and demonstrating how to derive new confidence intervals and tests.This fully revised second edition includes a brand-new chapter describing a novel extended ‘MOVER’ method to derive accurate confidence intervals for numerous properties. With sample datasets and easy-to-read visuals, this book focuses on practical issues, such as how topose meaningful research questions in terms of choice and constraintemploy confidence intervals correctly (including in graph plots)select a significance test (and interpret its results)construct confidence intervals for functions of independent proportionsmeasure the size of the effect of one variable on another or the similaritybetween two distributions; andevaluate whether the results of two experiments significantly differAppropriate for anyone from the student just beginning their career to the seasoned researcher, this book is both a practical overview and valuable resource.A website with downloadable resources for the calculations in this book is published at https://corplingstats.wordpress.com/siclr

The chapters in this volume feature new and groundbreaking research carried out by leading scholars and promising young researchers from around the world on recent changes in the English verb phrase. Drawing on authentic corpus data, the papers consider both spoken and written English in several genres. Each contribution pays particular attention to the methodologies used for investigating short-term patterns of change in English, with detailed discussions of controversies in this area. This cutting-edge collection is essential reading for historians of the English language, syntacticians and corpus linguists.