Self-advertising

[Stefan Th. Gries]

Dear all

I am taking the liberty to make two self-advertising announcements on my newsgroup; this is #1, #2 will probably follow in a few days.

I am very happy to announce that I have just sent the CRC of the revised and extended second edition of my textbook 'Statistics for linguistics with R' to De Gruyter Mouton. Here is some information on the changes:

- the ms has grown by approximately 10%;
- the amount of code provided has grown by approximately 100% (yes, 100%, this is not a typo)
- with the exception of the section on cluster analysis, Chapter 5 on multifactorial methods has been rewritten from scratch. It now includes linear regression/ANOVA, binary and ordinal logistic regression, multinomial regression, and Poisson regression. All regression methods are explained in the book and/or in the code file by means of six examples: 1) with a binary independent variable, 2) with a categorical independent variable, 3) with a numeric independent variable, and 4)-6) with combinations of one/two categorical and one/two numeric variables. In addition, there is a new overview section on the regression modeling process and a section on repeated-measures ANOVA;
- there is now a small section on programming in Chapter 2 discussing conditional expressions, loops, and writing your own functions;
- parts of Chapter 1 have been revised a bit, in particular the discussion of one- and two-tailed tests and probability distributions.
- I now provide a visual tool to help readers identify the right type of test; you can preview this tool at <http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/stgries/research/sflwr/sflwr2_navigator.png>

I hope the book will be available soon (it's currently scheduled to come out 15 May 2013) and that it will be useful to you - you should all buy at least two hardcover copies ;-)

Best,
STG
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Stefan Th. Gries
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University of California, Santa Barbara
http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/stgries
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[Stefan Th. Gries]

Dear all

As announced, here's the second self-advertising announcements:

I am very happy to announce that I will again teach two summer
bootcamps next year, this time at Ute Roemer's and Scott Crossley's
Department of Applied Linguistics and ESL at GSU in Atlanta, GA:

- bootcamp 'Corpus linguistics with R': 01-06 August 2013, a 30-hours
hands-on introduction to quantitative corpus linguistics with R;
- bootcamp 'Statistics for linguistics with R': 08-13 August 2013, a
30-hours hands-on introduction to statistical analysis in linguistics
with R.

As in 2012, you can either take one or both of these. A variety of
seats has already been taken but if you're interested, please see
<http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/stgries/teaching/bootcamps/
bootcamps2013.pdf> for details. It would be great to see many of you
there.

[Stefan Th. Gries]

Dear all

Quick follow-up on the first self-advertising mail the other (and I promise this to be the last one for the foreseeable future): De Gruyter Mouton has just decided to already publish the 2nd rev. and ext. edition of 'Statistics for linguistics with R' in March already, (rather than in May). If you are interested in it and want to get, say, Amazon early booking discounts, this would be the time to check when those are available. As a reminder, these are the revisions/extensions:

- the ms has grown by approximately 10%;
- the amount of code provided has grown by approximately 100% (yes, 100%, this is not a typo)
- with the exception of the section on cluster analysis, Chapter 5 on multifactorial methods has been rewritten from scratch. It now includes linear regression/ANOVA, binary and ordinal logistic regression, multinomial regression, and Poisson regression. All regression methods are explained in the book and/or in the code file by means of six examples: 1) with a binary independent variable, 2) with a categorical independent variable, 3) with a numeric independent variable, and 4)-6) with combinations of one/two categorical and one/two numeric variables. In addition, there is a new overview section on the regression modeling process and a section on repeated-measures ANOVA;
- there is now a small section on programming in Chapter 2 discussing conditional expressions, loops, and writing your own functions;

- parts of Chapter 1 have been revised a bit, in particular the discussion of one- and two-tailed tests and probability distributions;
- I now provide a visual tool to help readers identify the right type of test; you can preview this tool at <http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/stgries/research/sflwr/sflwr2_navigator.png>.