I-IV -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Statistics and the study of language behaviour -- Chapter 2. Analysis of variance -- Chapter 3. Multiple regression -- Chapter 4. More ANOVA and MR: assumptions and alternatives -- Chapter 5. Reliability and agreement among raters -- Chapter 6. Introductory matrix algebra -- Chapter 7. Factor analysis -- Chapter 8. Analysis of frequencies -- Chapter 9. Logistic regression -- Appendix A: Logarithms -- Appendix Β: Characteristic root test -- Appendix C: Eigenvalues of random data correlation matrices -- Appendix D: Command lines statistical programs -- Appendix Ε: Key to the exercises -- Appendix F: Statistical tables -- Index