⌛ Meets Tu/Th 2pm - 3:45,
in Stevenson 213
Handbook of Biological Statistics By John H. McDonald (UDel), lucid and accessible discussions
Introduction to Probability and Statistics using R By G. Jay Kerns (Youngstown State), very helpful integration of statistical concepts with R
There is a library of books about experimental design, statistics for linguistics research, R, etc. in 232 Stevenson.
handouts
Assignments
Due date in parentheses.
To accomplish these objectives, we will learn to conduct two kinds of experiments: an acceptability study and a reaction time study. These two basic studies cover a wide range of issues and concerns and are of primary importance to linguistics since they allow the investigator to establish distributional facts about a language; to map the time-course of language processes; and, more generally, to discover patterns of complexity in linguistic knowledge.
This course is not a laundry-list introduction to a collection of tests and designs. It is about learning to build up your analysis from basic principles; becoming more adept consumers of information from the scientific and statistical literature; and thinking hard about how empirical observation and theory development feed one another.
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