Weighting Evidence in Language and Literature : : A Statistical Approach / / Barron Brainerd.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Brainerd, Barron,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©1974
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Mathematical preliminaries --; 1. Reduction of numerical data --; 2. Introduction to probability --; 3. Random variables --; 4. Estimation --; 5. Hypothesis testing --; 6. Some more extended studies --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781442632394; 9783110490947
• DOI: 10.3138/9781442632394
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Barron Brainerd.

In recent years, there has been a tremendous development in the area of quantitative and statistical analysis of linguistic and literary data, generated, no doubt, by extensive advances in computer technology and their relatively easy availability to scholars. However, except for a few rather specialized examples, there has been no truly introductory text in statistics and quantitative analysis devoted to the needs of language scholars. This work was written especially to fill the gap. It introduces a mathematically naïve reader to those statistical tools which are applicable in modern quantitative text and language analysis, and does this in terms of simple examples dealing exclusively with language and literature. Exercises are included throughout.