[Corpora-List] Significance test for TTR

CRuehlemann at aol.com CRuehlemann at aol.com
Sun Nov 20 18:20:44 CET 2011


Hi all,

The type token ratio (TTR) is a measure of the lexical diversity of a text/text type. If one finds in two texts/text types two widely differing TTRs, one would like to assess the significance of this finding.

Which test is appropriate for differences between TTRs?

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