A common misapplication of statistical inference: nuisance control with null-hypothesis significance tests

1 code implementation • 15 Feb 2016 • Jona Sassenhagen, Phillip M. Alday

Similarly, when presenting word stimuli, variables such as word frequency are often correlated with primary variables of interest.

Methodology

Be Careful When Assuming the Obvious: Commentary on "The placement of the head that minimizes online memory: a complex systems approach"

no code implementations • 20 Aug 2014 • Phillip M. Alday

Ferrer-i-Cancho (2015) presents a mathematical model of both the synchronic and diachronic nature of word order based on the assumption that memory costs are a never decreasing function of distance and a few very general linguistic assumptions.