textometry (version 0.1.2)

robespierre: Robespierre's discourses

Description

A lexical table containing the frequencies of 5 words in 9 Robespierre public discourses (between november 1793 and july 1794).

Usage

data(robespierre)

format

The format is: num [1:6, 1:10] 464 45 35 30 6 ... - attr(*, "dimnames")=List of 2 ..$ : chr [1:6] "de" "peuple" "republique" "ennemi" ... ..$ : chr [1:10] "D1" "D2" "D3" "D4" ...

source

Lafon P. (1980) Sur la variabilit ' e de la fr ' e quence des formes dans un corpus, Mots, 1, pp. 127--165.

Details

The last line of the table give the total frequency of all the other forms in each of these discourses.

References

Lafon P. (1980) Sur la variabilit ' e de la fr ' e quence des formes dans un corpus, Mots, 1, pp. 127--165.

Examples

data(robespierre)

## See graphic in Lafon, 1980 : 140

t <- colSums(robespierre)["D9"];     # size of the part
T <- sum(robespierre);             # size of the corpus
f <- rowSums(robespierre)["peuple"]; # total frequency of "peuple"
p <- dhyper(1:15, f, T-f, t)
plot(p, type="h", main="Probabilities of frequencies of 'peuple' in the 'D9' discourse",
	xlab="Frequency of 'peuple'", ylab="Prob(k)");