Statistics for Linguistics with R

by Stefan Th. Gries

This book is an introduction to statistics for linguists using the open source software R. It is aimed at students and professors with little or no statistical background, is written in a non-technical and reader-friendly style, and covers the structure of quantitative studies, descriptive and analytical statistics, multifactorial approaches and simple statistical graphs. Key features comes with many exercises, recommendations for further study, and answer keys reference to companion website aimed at beginners on every level of linguistic education presupposes no quantitative/statistical knowledge whatsoever begins at step 1 for every method and explains everything explicitly

Genres: Linguistics

348 pages, Paperback

First published July 31, 2009

About the author

Also sometimes listed as Stefan Thomas Gries.

Reviews

[Linda · Rating 4 out of 5]

A useful reminder for lots of R tricks you've forgotten over the years. Sometimes the writer's style is annoying, though - he'll just say, "We already know how to do this from a previous case, so..." and then doesn't show you how a new model/function/test works at all. Perhaps he has a better memory than most of us. Aside from that, though, it is a very useful guide.