This book demonstrates the contribution that statistics can and should make to linguistic studies.The range of work to which statistical analysis is applicable is vast:including,for example,language acquisition,language variation and many aspects of applied linguistics,The aubhors give a wide variety of linguixtic examples to demonstrate the use of statistics in summarising data in the most appropriate way,and then making helpful inferences form the processed information.
Students and resesarchers in many fields of linguistics will find this book an invaluable introduction to the use of statistics,and a practical text tor the development of skils in the application of statistics.
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值得反复强调的是,这些简单的归纳是为了迅速掌握数据的主要特征,并不是说,当这种简单归纳会模糊问题的焦点会掩盖数据中的严重缺失时,不应该使用进一步的归纳法。
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