A+ Lecture "Learning from experience: Key concepts of statistical thinking for the Humanities"
Pomeranian University in Słupsk invites you to the final A+ Lecture, organised within the framework of the “Active University” public outreach programme. The event will take place on 17 January 2023 (Tuesday) at 12:00 (GMT+1). The lecture titled "Learning from experience: Key concepts of statistical thinking for the Humanities" will be delivered by professor Vaclav Brezina from the University of Lancaster.
The event will be available via our ClickMeeting webinar platform and will be broadcast through our YouTube channel.
Bio
Vaclav Brezina is a Professor in Corpus Linguistics at the Department of Linguistics and English Language and a member of the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science, Lancaster University. His research interests are in the areas of applied linguistics, corpus design and methodology, and statistics. He is the author of “Statistics in Corpus Linguistics” (CUP, 2018) and co-author of “Fundamental Principles of Corpus Linguistics” (CUP, 2022). He also designed a number of different tools for corpus analysis such as #LancsBox, BNClab, LancsLex and Lancaster Stats Tools online.
Abstract
The lecture offers an accessible introduction to statistics, which does not require any previous knowledge in this area. It starts with an informal definition of statistics as systematic learning from experience and offers a number of practical examples of statistical analysis of texts and corpora (bodies of texts) which will be of interest to students and researchers in the Humanities. Based on these examples, key statistical concepts and principles will be derived. The participants will learn a range of essential transferable skills, which they will be able to apply in the analysis of language in their own context.
Moderator: prof. Marek Łukasik
Join us through Click Meeting platform:
https://akademiapomorska.clickmeeting.com/a-lecture-learning-from-experience
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