In:How to do Linguistics with R: Data exploration and statistical analysis
Natalia Levshina
[Not in series 195] 2015
► pp. 41–68
Chapter 3Descriptive statistics for quantitative variables
Published online: 25 November 2015
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.195.c3
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.195.c3
Article outline
- 3.1Analysing the distribution of word lengths: Basic descriptive statistics
- 3.1.1The data
- 3.1.2Measures of central tendency
- 3.1.3Measures of dispersion
- 3.2Bad times, good times: Visualization of a distribution and detection of outliers
- 3.3Zipf’s law and word frequency: Transformation of quantitative variables
- 3.4Summary
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