Welcome to the Linguistics Statistics Group!

This blog provides a way for people doing language-related research to practice statistical analysis and ask questions. It is primarily meant for people at the University of Arizona. Many of us have found that after taking a statistics course, we don’t get frequent enough opportunities to practice analyzing a variety of kinds of data. By the time something comes up, we may have forgotten a lot about how to analyze it. This group is meant to meet the need for practice on a variety of kinds of linguistic data, but in an asynchronous, entirely online, format.

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How does the group work?

Conditions
By joining the group, you are agreeing to some conditions which we regard as necessary for fair use of this resource.

1) It would obviously be unethical to download the dataset of the month and represent it as your own work. You are, of course, agreeing not to do this. (People submitting datasets to be datasets of the month might consider altering some data intentionally if they don’t want their actual data posted.)

2) It would also be unethical to submit your own data to be a dataset of the month, see what others post as statistical analyses of the data, and then cut and paste one of those solutions into your term paper, article, etc. That is, using a solution posted by someone else would be plagiarism. If you submit a dataset to be considered for dataset of the month, you will be required to send in your own analysis of it before it is posted as a dataset of the month, partly in order to make this problem less likely to come up. However, even if you have done your own solution first, it would be plagiarism to copy someone else’s solution. It is, of course, fine to read someone else’s solution and learn from it. That’s the goal. By joining the group, you are agreeing not to misuse any analyses anyone posts.