Tests, effect sizes, and explorations: Frequency tables

Gries, Stefan Th.

doi:10.1075/hcp.43.14gri

In:Corpus Methods for Semantics: Quantitative studies in polysemy and synonymy
Edited by Dylan Glynn and Justyna A. Robinson
[Human Cognitive Processing 43] 2014
► pp. 365–389

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Frequency tables

Tests, effect sizes, and explorations

Stefan Th. Gries | University of California, Santa Barbara

Published online: 6 November 2014

https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.43.14gri

This chapter provides an overview of statistical tests to analyze frequency data. Specifically, it discusses the use, logic, and interpretation of chi-squared tests of two-dimensional frequency tables as well as the computation of effect sizes for such tables, followed by several extensions and follow-up procedures that are not usually discussed (such as the analysis of sub-tables of tables and the Marascuilo procedure). In addition, there is a brief discussion of how Poisson/count regression can be used to analyze frequency data with more than two dimensions.

Keywords: chi-squared test, frequency data, Marascuilo procedure, Poisson regression

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