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herdan.fnc

Herdan's C

This function calculates Herdan's constant C.

herdan.fnc(text, chunks)

`text`	A vector of strings representing a text.
`chunks`	A vector of chunk sizes for which Herdan's C is required. Duplicate chunk sizes are not allowed, and the number of chunks should be at least 2.

A list with components

`growth`	A data frame with token and type counts for the requested chunk sizes.
`C`	Herdan's C.

R. H. Baayen

Herdan, G. (1960) Type-Token Mathematics, The Hague: Mouton.

Herdan, G. (1964) Quantitative Linguistics, London: Buttersworths.

## Not run: 
  data(alice)
  herdan.fnc(alice, cumsum(rep(floor(length(alice)/40), 40)))

## End(Not run)

Analyzing Linguistic Data: A Practical Introduction to Statistics

v1.5.0

GPL (>= 2)

Authors

R. H. Baayen <harald.baayen@uni-tuebingen.de>, Elnaz Shafaei-Bajestan <elnaz.shafaei-bajestan@uni-tuebingen.de>

Initial release

2019-01-28