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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION

 1.1 Overview of Statistics

1.1.1 Needs of statistics in linguistic studies

1.1.2 Definition of statistics

1.1.3 Types of statistics

 1.2 Basic Concepts of Statistics

1.2.1 Population and sample 

1.2.2 Parameter and statistic

1.2.3 Types of variables

 1.3 Types of Data

1.3.1 Categorical data, ranked data and quantitative data

1.3.2 Observational data and experimental data

1.3.3 Cross-section data and time-series data

CHAPTER 2 NUMERICAL DESCRIPTIVE MEASURES

 2.1 Measures of Oentral Tendency

2.1.1 The mean

2.1.2 The median

2.1.3 The mode

2.1.4 Comparison of the mode, median and mean

 2.2 Measures of Variability

2.2.1 The range

2.2.2 The quartile deviation

2.2.3 Variance and the standard deviation

2.2.4 Coefficient of variance

CHAPTER 3 NORMAL DISTRIBUTION, STANDARD SCORES AND WEIGHTED SCORES

 3.1 Normal Distribution

3.1.1 Properties of normal distribution

3.1.2 Standard normal distribution

3.1.3 The table of standard normal distribution and its application

 3 2 Standard Scores

3.2.1 Zscores

3.2.2 Tscores

3.2.3 Weighted scores

CHAPTER 4 PARAMETRIC ESTIMATION

 4.1 Concepts of Parametric Estimation

4.1.1 Estimate and estimator

4.1.2 Criteria of assessing estimator

4.1.3 Determining the sample size

 4.2 Point Estimate and Interval Estimate

 4.3 Application of Interval Estimation

4.3.1 Interval estimation o{ a population mean

4.3.2 Interval estimation of a population proportion

CHAPTER 5 HYPOTHESIS TEST

 5.1 Concepts of Hypothesis Test

5.1.1 Null hypothesis and alternative hypothesis

5.1.2 Type I and Type II errors

5.1.3 Two-tailed versus one-tailed tests

 5.2 Hypothesis Test

5.2.1 Hypothesis test about a population mean

5.2.2 Hypothesis test about a population proportion

CHAPTER 6 CHI-SQUARE TESTS

 6.1 Chi-square Distribution

 6.2 A Goodness-of-fit Test

6.2.1 The chi-square statistic

6.2.2 Equal proportions for all categories

6.2.3 Test of the fit of a normal distribution

 6.3 A Test of Independence

6.3.1 Contingency tables

6.3.2 A test of independence

CHAPTER 7 ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE

 7.1 F Distribution

 7.2 One-way Analysis of Variance

7.2.1 Requirements and procedures of one-way ANOVA

7.2.2 One-way ANOVA test

 7.3 Factorial Analysis of Variance

7.3.1 Requirements and procedures of factorial ANOVA

7.3.2 Factorial ANOVA test

CHAPTER 8 LINEAR CORRELATON AND LINEAR REGRESSION

 8.1 Linear Correlation

8.1.1 Linear correlation coefficient

8.1.2 Pearson product moment correlation coefficient

8.1.3 Hypothesis test about significant correlations

 8.2 Linear Regression Analysis

8.2.1 Standard deviation of random errors

8.2.2 Coefficient of determination

8.2.3 Multiple linear regression analysis

CHAPTER 9 NON-PARAMETRIC TEST

 9.1 The Wilcoxon Signed-rank Test

9.1.1 The Wileoxon signed-rank test for small sample

9.1.2 The Wilcoxon signed-rank test for large sample

 9.2 The Spearman Rho Rank Correlation Coefficient Test

Appendix Statistical Tables

Key to Some Selected Exercises

References