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robespierre: 5 words from Robespierre's discourses

Description

A lexical table containing frequencies of 5 words from 9 different public discourses of French politician Robespierre (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" ...

Details

The last line of the table gives 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

# NOT RUN {
data(robespierre)

## See graphic in Lafon, 1980 - page 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)
title <- "Probability of each frequency of 'peuple' in the 'D9' discourse from 1 to 15"
plot(p, type="h", main=title, xlab="k", ylab="Prob(k)");
# }