General description
In this module, you will learn how to analyse linguistic data with R, Rstudio, and the tidyverse. We will cover descriptive and inferential statistics as well as linear modelling. Each lesson consists of a theoretical part followed by hands-on exercises in R.
As outcome of the course, you will be able to:
- visualise and summarise your data
- analyse continuous data with a linear model which includes assumption checks, data transformation, contrast coding, interpretation of the model outcome (including interactions)
- carry out inferential statistics (hypothesis formulating and testing)
- communicate your results
- conduct open and reproducible research
Topics:
- descriptive statistics, plotting of data
- introduction to linear modelling with one categorical or continuous predictor (this includes data transformation, contrast coding)
- multiple linear models (two predictors) and interactions (this includes data transformation)
- inferential statistics and communicating results
- open research
As of 2024, this module can be followed together with module 1 Introduction to R in a complete Novice track for this Summer School.
Target audience and course prerequisites
The course is aimed at linguistic researchers who have a background in statistics or who wish to refresh their basic skills and knowledge. Participants should have the R skills as taught in module 1 Introduction to R of this Summer School.
Course materials
All course materials will be provided online and include slides, exercises and solutions, R markdown files, datasets and further reading.
Teacher bio
Alex Lorson is an assistant professor at the University of Groningen where she teaches courses on pragmatics, multimodality, quantitative methods and statistics. Next to teaching stats courses in Groningen (and previously at the University of Edinburgh), she has taught statistics at summer schools and workshops at the Universities of Birmingham and Göttingen as well as the RWTH Aachen University. Alex will hold a workshop on linear modelling in September 2024 preceding the 10th international conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association hosted by the University of Osnabrück.
Alex’s research focuses on the effects of co-speech gesture on language comprehension, epistemicity, communicative strategies (e.g., in interrogation), and the representation of cognitive biases in language.
Schedule
- Wednesday 17/07/2024, 14:00-15:30 & 16:00-17:30
- Thursday 18/07/2024, 9:00-10:30 & 11:00-12:30 & 14:00-15:30 & 16:00-17:30
- Friday 19/07/2024, 9:00-10:30 & 11:00-12:30 & 14:00-15:30 & 16:00-17:30