Statistics in Sociolinguistics
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1. Introduction Many areas connected with sociolinguistics in which quantitative data play a role, have seen the application of statistical methods, both traditional (experimental design, sampling, estimation, hypothesis testing) and heuristic (clustering, scaling). Some of these are discussed in other entries (see Social Psychology; Sociometry; Attitude Surveys: Question and Answer Process; Scaling; Multidimensional Scaling). It is within variation theory, however, where social considerations are most intimately connected to grammatical questions, that a specifically sociolinguis-tic protocol for statistical analysis has been developed and widely adopted. This article will survey the justifications for this approach and sketch how it has been applied to various types of linguistic problems.
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