Statistics in Corpus Linguistics Research: A New Approach

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 to• pose meaningful research questions in terms of choice and constraint;• employ confidence intervals correctly (including in graph plots);• select a significance test (and interpret its results);• construct confidence intervals for functions of independent proportions;• measure the size of the effect of