Log-likelihood and odds ratio: Keyness statistics for different purposes of keyword analysis

Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 133-167

  Pojanapunya, Punjaporn ^a   Todd, Richard Watson ^a  

^a KING MONGKUT'S UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY THONBURI   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Keyness; Keyword; Keyword identification; Log likelihood; Odds ratio

Indexed keywords

EID: 85052691087     PISSN: 16137027     EISSN: 16137035     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/cllt-2015-0030     Document Type: Article

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