Critical analysis of the use of statistical inference in social and behavioural research, its proper role, logic, and its abuse. Argues that ignorance and misunderstanding of the role of statistical inference has had a detrimental effect upon research in the field. Points the way to an appropriate appreciation of the part played by quantification in these disciplines. Examines the significance test versus interval estimation and evaluates Neyman-Pearson, Fisherian, Bayesian, and Likelihood inference. Presents arguments in a plainly written, easily understood manner.

Statistical Inference: A Commentary for the Social and Behavioural Sciences

Politics & Social Sciences

Oakes, Michael

Social Sciences

wiley

This book in the Edinburgh Textbooks in Empirical Linguistics series is a comprehensive introduction to the statistics currently used in corpus linguistics. Statistical techniques and corpus applications--whether oriented towards linguistics or language engineering--often go hand in glove, and corpus linguists have used an increasingly wide variety of statistics, drawing on techniques developed in a great many fields.This is the first one-volume introduction to the subject.

Statistics for Corpus Linguistics (Edinburgh Textbooks in Empirical Linguistics)

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