Statistical comparability: Methodological caveats

Building and Using Comparable Corpora

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 77-91

  Köhler, Reinhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Comparability; Homogeneity; Methodology; Representativeness; Statistical tests

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS; STATISTICAL TESTS; STATISTICS; TESTING;

COMPARABILITY; COMPARABLE CORPORA; CORPUS LINGUISTICS; HOMOGENEITY; LINGUISTIC DATA; METHODOLOGY; REPRESENTATIVENESS; STATISTICAL COMPARISONS;

STATISTICAL METHODS;

EID: 84956497105     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-20128-8_4     Document Type: Chapter

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