- Ferdinand de Saussure, Cours de linguistique générale (publicé par Charles Bally et Albert Sechehaye), Lausanne, Paris, 1916, p. 57.
- “Sampling error” may be misleading to anyone not familiar with statistical terminology. It means simply that the difference between the measurement in the sample and the corresponding measurement in the universe from which the sample is drawn is due merely to chance.
- For the purpose of checking the significance of Prof. Martinet's conclusions, I applied statistical tests of significance to several of the percentage differences to which the author attributes significance. In each instance the possibility of the difference having been produced by sampling error (chance) was not greater than about 4 in 100, which offers a reasonable margin of safety in assuming the findings to be significant.
- Choose new content alerts to be informed about new research of interest to you
- Easy remote access to your institution's subscriptions on any device, from any location
- Save your searches and schedule alerts to send you new results
- Export your search results into a .csv file to support your research