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The Foundations of Statistics: A Simulation-based Approach (Hardcover, Edition.): Shravan Vasishth, Michael Broe The Foundations of Statistics: A Simulation-based Approach (Hardcover, Edition.)
Shravan Vasishth, Michael Broe
R1,471 Discovery Miles 14 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Statistics and hypothesis testing are routinely used in areas (such as linguistics) that are traditionally not mathematically intensive. In such fields, when faced with experimental data, many students and researchers tend to rely on commercial packages to carry out statistical data analysis, often without understanding the logic of the statistical tests they rely on. As a consequence, results are often misinterpreted, and users have difficulty in flexibly applying techniques relevant to their own research they use whatever they happen to have learned. A simple solution is to teach the fundamental ideas of statistical hypothesis testing without using too much mathematics.

This book provides a non-mathematical, simulation-based introduction to basic statistical concepts and encourages readers to try out the simulations themselves using the source code and data provided (the freely available programming language R is used throughout). Since the code presented in the text almost always requires the use of previously introduced programming constructs, diligent students also acquire basic programming abilities in R.

The book is intended for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in any discipline, although the focus is on linguistics, psychology, and cognitive science. It is designed for self-instruction, but it can also be used as a textbook for a first course on statistics. Earlier versions of the book have been used in undergraduate and graduate courses in Europe and the US.

Vasishth and Broe have written an attractive introduction to the foundations of statistics. It is concise, surprisingly comprehensive, self-contained and yet quite accessible. Highly recommended.

Harald Baayen, Professor of Linguistics, University of Alberta, Canada

By using the text students not only learn to do the specific things outlined in the book, they also gain a skill set that empowers them to explore new areas that lie beyond the book s coverage.

Colin Phillips, Professor of Linguistics, University of Maryland, USA

Working Memory in Sentence Comprehension - Processing Hindi Center Embeddings (Paperback): Shravan Vasishth Working Memory in Sentence Comprehension - Processing Hindi Center Embeddings (Paperback)
Shravan Vasishth
R1,282 R1,137 Discovery Miles 11 370 Save R145 (11%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The first-ever investigation of sentence processing in Hindi, Working Memory in Sentence Comprehension studies the predictions of three existing, wide-coverage sentence processing models. In experiments that apply these models to Hindi, Shravan Vasishth develops a new sentence processing model that builds on existing theories and overcomes their empirical problems. Advancing the understanding of human parsing processes, this book is a landmark in cross-linguistic research, presenting a challenging set of sentence processing facts that will impact future theories.

Working Memory in Sentence Comprehension - Processing Hindi Center Embeddings (Hardcover): Shravan Vasishth Working Memory in Sentence Comprehension - Processing Hindi Center Embeddings (Hardcover)
Shravan Vasishth
R2,740 Discovery Miles 27 400 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


The first-ever investigation of sentence processing in Hindi, Working Memory in Sentence Comprehension studies the predictions of three existing, wide-coverage sentence processing models. In experiments that apply these models to Hindi, Shravan Vasishth develops a new sentence processing model that builds on existing theories and overcomes their empirical problems. Advancing the understanding of human parsing processes, this book is a landmark in cross-linguistic research, presenting a challenging set of sentence processing facts that will impact future theories.

Sentence Comprehension as a Cognitive Process - A Computational Approach (Hardcover): Shravan Vasishth, Felix Engelmann Sentence Comprehension as a Cognitive Process - A Computational Approach (Hardcover)
Shravan Vasishth, Felix Engelmann
R2,849 Discovery Miles 28 490 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Sentence comprehension - the way we process and understand spoken and written language - is a central and important area of research within psycholinguistics. This book explores the contribution of computational linguistics to the field, showing how computational models of sentence processing can help scientists in their investigation of human cognitive processes. It presents the leading computational model of retrieval processes in sentence processing, the Lewis and Vasishth cue-based retrieval mode, and develops a principled methodology for parameter estimation and model comparison/evaluation using benchmark data, to enable researchers to test their own models of retrieval against the present model. It also provides readers with an overview of the last 20 years of research on the topic of retrieval processes in sentence comprehension, along with source code that allows researchers to extend the model and carry out new research. Comprehensive in its scope, this book is essential reading for researchers in cognitive science.

The Foundations of Statistics: A Simulation-based Approach (Paperback, 2011 ed.): Shravan Vasishth, Michael Broe The Foundations of Statistics: A Simulation-based Approach (Paperback, 2011 ed.)
Shravan Vasishth, Michael Broe
R1,469 Discovery Miles 14 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Statistics and hypothesis testing are routinely used in areas (such as linguistics) that are traditionally not mathematically intensive. In such fields, when faced with experimental data, many students and researchers tend to rely on commercial packages to carry out statistical data analysis, often without understanding the logic of the statistical tests they rely on. As a consequence, results are often misinterpreted, and users have difficulty in flexibly applying techniques relevant to their own research - they use whatever they happen to have learned. A simple solution is to teach the fundamental ideas of statistical hypothesis testing without using too much mathematics. This book provides a non-mathematical, simulation-based introduction to basic statistical concepts and encourages readers to try out the simulations themselves using the source code and data provided (the freely available programming language R is used throughout). Since the code presented in the text almost always requires the use of previously introduced programming constructs, diligent students also acquire basic programming abilities in R. The book is intended for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in any discipline, although the focus is on linguistics, psychology, and cognitive science. It is designed for self-instruction, but it can also be used as a textbook for a first course on statistics. Earlier versions of the book have been used in undergraduate and graduate courses in Europe and the US. "Vasishth and Broe have written an attractive introduction to the foundations of statistics. It is concise, surprisingly comprehensive, self-contained and yet quite accessible. Highly recommended." Harald Baayen, Professor of Linguistics, University of Alberta, Canada "By using the text students not only learn to do the specific things outlined in the book, they also gain a skill set that empowers them to explore new areas that lie beyond the book's coverage." Colin Phillips, Professor of Linguistics, University of Maryland, USA

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