Errata for Statistics for Linguistics with R, 2nd ed.
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p. 1, bullet point 3:
data, summarize
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data, how to summarize
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p. 1, last line:
they can handle)
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they can handle
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p. 2, paragraph starting with "Chapter 3":
i.e. procedures, in which several potential
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i.e. procedures in which several potential”
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p. 2, lower third:
things, Ican only deal
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things, I can only deal
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p. 10, Table 3:
CLAUSALLY MODIFIED
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CLAUSALLY-MODIFIED
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p. 11, mid:
reduced the minimum age, that the number of
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reduced the minimum age, the number of
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p. 12, above Figure 3
correlated with independent dependent variables
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correlated with independent and dependent variables
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p. 13, above H_0 type 1:
both a dependent and and independent variable
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both a dependent and an independent variable
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p. 24, Table 6
ONJ
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OBJ
p. 28, bullet point 2, line 2 from bottom:
etc. (Outliers
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etc.) (Outliers
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p. 28, last par.:
, that other probability
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, the other probability
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p. 33, last full par, line 2 from bottom:
where here there
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where there
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p. 34, caption of Figure 4:
All probabilities of possible results
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All possible results
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p. 36, caption of Figure 6:
All probabilities of possible results
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All possible results
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p. 41, first bullet point
the standard normal distribution with z-scores (norm);
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the standard normal distribution (norm) with z-scores;
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p. 46, mid of last par.:
Since there are two independent variables for each of the two levels
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Since there are two levels for each of the two independent variables
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p. 49, last par., line 1:
do not follow 0
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do not follow (5)
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p. 50, line 1:
items of Table 13
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items in Table 13
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p. 53, line 2:
in front of
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in front of
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p. 54, line 11:
website (see
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website; see
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p. 54, line 7 from bottom:
Now that every subjects
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Now that every subject
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p. 55, line 3:
(without double quotes, of course)
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(without double quotes, of course))
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p. 55, mid:
and blue arrives indicate
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and blue arrows indicate
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p. 55, above bullet points:
you enter them into and
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you enter them into and
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p. 57, line 1 after 6.:
files with example files
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files with examples and data sets
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p. 57, mid:
(for _s_tatistics _f_or _l_inguists _w_ith _R_)
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(for _s_tatistics _f_or _l_inguistics _w_ith _R_)
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p. 58, line 1:
the console with
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the console by
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p. 58, line 7:
high-lighting
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highlighting
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p. 66, last line of code:
> numbers
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> numbers1.and.numbers2
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p. 69, line 1-2:
let R figure out it for
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let R figure it out for
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p. 71, below Figure 12:
You get
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You get (with <_inputfiles/02-3-2_vector2.txt>)
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p. 71, mid:
Now, how do you save vectors into files.
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Now, how do you save vectors into files?
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p. 74, the bottom second code box
> which(x<=7) which elements of x are <= 7?¶
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> which(x<=7) # which elements of x are <= 7?¶
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p. 74, the bottom second code box
> which(x>8 | x<3) which elements of x are >8 or <3?¶
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> which(x>8 | x<3) # which elements of x are >8 or <3?¶
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p. 75, last par.:
The output of %in% is a logical variable which says for each element of the vector before %in% whether it occurs in the vector after %in%.
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The output of %in% is a logical variable which, for each element of the vector before %in%, says whether or not it occurs in the vector after %in%.
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p. 79, beginning of 4:
we read in data frames
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we read in data frames (to be discussed below)
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p. 79, 2nd to last line of text:
mostly the vector
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usually the vector
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p. 80, in the middle
- 0.992 < interval/level 1 ≤ 3.66;
- ? 3.66 < interval/level 1 ≤ 6.34;
- ? 6.34 < interval/level 1 ≤ 9.01.
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- 0.992 < interval/level 1 ≤ 3.66;
- 3.66 < interval/level 2 ≤ 6.34;
- 6.34 < interval/level 3 ≤ 9.01.
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p. 82, line 2:
chang the name
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change the name
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p. 86, beginning of 5.2:
save it as a comma-separated text file
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tab-delimited text file with the extension .csv
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p. 86, last full par.:
; then you choose tabs as field delimiter
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); then you choose tabs as field delimiters
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p. 86, bullet point 1:
here, too;
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here, too);
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p. 87, par. before last block of code:
with read.delim:, which
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with read.delim, which
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p. 90, line 2 of second grey box of code
Class
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CLASS
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p. 90, last line:
easy with vector
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easy with vectors
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p. 91, line 1 after 1st code block
b<-a[a$Class=="open",]; b
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b<-a[a$CLASS=="open",]; b
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p. 91, last two lines:
in a spreadsheet software
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in a spreadsheet software program
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> p. 92, right above the THINK BREAK
you wanted to search the data frame
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you wanted to sort the data frame
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> p. 92, right above the THINK BREAK
within Class according to
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within CLASS according to
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p. 93, recommendations
to read in tab-delimited files
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to read in comma-separated files
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p. 94, first block of code:
what to do if this logical expression evaluates to FALSE
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what to do if this logical expression evaluates to TRUE
p. 95, last block of code:
as often often as
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as often as
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p. 100, block of code:
> peek< function (x, n=6) {¶
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> peek<-function (x, n=6) {¶
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p. 118, below third grey box of code:
10.000
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10,000
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p. 118, below third grey box of code:
5.000
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5,000
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p. 136, near the bottom
the levels of the first vector in the rows
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the unique values/levels of the first vector/factor in the rows
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p. 139, code below Figure 31
fil.table
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fill.table
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p. 153, par. 2:
colleages
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colleagues
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p. 162, line 5 of 4.1.1.1:
you must some know test like this
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you must know some test like this
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p. 163, grey block of code:
xlab="Tense-Apect correlation"
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xlab="Tense-Aspect correlation"
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p. 170, mid of last full par.:
0.00000125825
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0.000001125825
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p. 173, second bullet point:
interval/ratio-scaled: the
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interval/ratio-scaled variable: the
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p. 180, last par.:
are those represented in Table 24.
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are those represented in Table 25.
p. 186, block of code:
sqrt(test.Peters$statistic/
sum(Peters.2001)*(min(dim(Peters.2001))-1))¶
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sqrt(test.Peters$statistic/
(sum(Peters.2001)*(min(dim(Peters.2001))-1)))¶
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p. 206, H1:
average ofHEDGES
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average of HEDGES
p. 211, first grey block of code:
Dices <- read.delim(file.choose()
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Dices <- read.delim(file.choose())
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p. 217, last grey block of code:
ylim=(c(0, 1000))
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ylim=c(0, 1000)
p. 218-221: Given the the test for homogeneity of variances returned a ns result, it would have been didactically more consistent to apply t.test with the additional argument var.equal=TRUE. If the t-test is computed like that, the p-value changes from 0.01619 (with var.equal=FALSE) to 0.01611 (with var.equal=TRUE); the formula for the df changes to n_1+n_2-2.
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p. 221, recommendations box:
of this F-test, which
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of this t-test, which
p. 229, second line from bottom
it may safer to compute
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it may be safer to compute
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p. 248, line 12:
a small a pilot
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a small pilot
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p. 256, par. 2, line 2
advanatage
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advantage
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p. 264, first line of first code block:
> RTs$FAMILIARITY< factor
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> RTs$FAMILIARITY<-factor
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p. 264, the first line of the paragraph right above the last code example
ecdf plots).
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ecdf plots),
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p. 273, mid of last paragraph
trials is 0.95^2=0.857375.
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trials is 0.95^3=0.857375.
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p. 276, section heading of 5.2.4
2.4. A linear model with a two categorical predictors
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2.4. A linear model with two categorical predictors
p. 278, the second item in the list at the top
(averaging across IMAGEABILITY)’
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(averaging across IMAGEABILITY);
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p. 286, mid
Part of the reason why the overall model is significant
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Part of the reason why the overall model is insignificant
p. 295, (63a):
1/(1+e^x)
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1/(1+e^-x)
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p. 295, Procedure box
fewer than 95% of the model'2 absolute
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fewer than 5% of the model's absolute
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p. 304, mid
weak correlation betwween the type
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weak correlation betwwen the type
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p. 304, last line before 3.2
prefer to preceed main clauses
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prefer to precede main clauses
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p. 304, bottom
Since FAMILIARITY has more than 1 df, you use drop1 (or other functions, see the code file) to get one p-value, and FAMILIARITY is highly significant.
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Since CONJ has more than 1 df, you use drop1 (or other functions, see the code file) to get one p-value, and CONJ is highly significant.
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p. 305, last line of paragraph 1
level of FAMILIARITY
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level of CONJ
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p. 306, par. 3:
Fox and Weisberg (2011:239)
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Fox and Weisberg (2011: 239)”
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p. 315, par. 3:
(but see Fox and Weisberg (2011: Ch. 6))
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(but see Fox and Weisberg 2011: Ch. 6)
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p. 319, line 2 of the paragraph below the last code box
(and the argument ".*\\." means ‘characters up to and including a period’)
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(and the argument "^.*?\\." means ‘characters up to and including a period’)
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p. 320, last par., mid:
more problematic, though so
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more problematic, though, so
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p. 322, last full par., line 1:
get again get
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again get
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p. 323, line 2 before last code block:
take take
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take
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p. 328, par. below bullet points:
popluation
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population
p. 328, last par.:
her,e
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here,
p. 330:
Errror: TEXT
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Error: TEXT
p. 333, par. 1 of Section 5.4:
use as the above may have made you expect.
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use as you may have expected.
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p. 333, line 3 from bottom:
system, they allow the
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system, allowing the
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p. 335, par. 2, line 3:
chapter. Well
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chapter? Well
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p. 335, bullet point 2, penultimate line:
do no converge
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do not converge
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p. 335, bullet point 2, mid:
with a maximal random-effect structure
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with a maximal random-effects structure
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p. 336, middle of the page (above the Recommendation(s) box):
that make tackling some of these questions more easily
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that make tackling some of these questions easier
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p. 339, Procedure box:
(Post-hoc
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Post-hoc
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p. 339, bottom:
clusters with bar (and
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clusters (and
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p. 342, bulleted list (three times):
for aa and bb:
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for aa and bb
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p. 343, middle paragraph:
all other measures for ratio-scaled are:
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all other measures for ratio-scaled variables are
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p. 348, line 5 below Figure 81:
and the latter very little substructure
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and the latter has very little substructure
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p. 348, line 5 from bottom:
The function cluster.stats from the library fpc offers
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The function cluster.stats from the library fpc offers
p. 349, line 5:
sould
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should
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p. 355: remove the two Divjak & Gries references.
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