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SUMMARY:A primer on Functional Data Analysis for speech research - Michele
  Gubian\, CLST Radboud University\, Nijmegen
DTSTART:20100326T100000Z
DTEND:20100326T160000Z
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CONTACT:Marco Aldo Piccolino Boniforti
DESCRIPTION:Analyzing curves is a common task in speech research. For exam
 ple\, pitch contours are analyzed (and also modified) in intonation resear
 ch.\nUsually a few quantitative descriptors of such curves are extracted f
 irst(duration\, peaks\, max velocity\, etc.) then ordinary statistical ana
 lyses are applied to those descriptors. Functional Data Analysis (FDA) is 
 a set of modern techniques that allow you to perform statistical analyses 
 directly on the entire set of curves. It provides both qualitative insight
 \nin the form of graphical display of results\, as well as quantitative ou
 tput in the well known form of p-values\, percentage of explained variance
 \, etc.\n\nAn oral presentation will provide a global view of FDA tools ma
 inly by showing applied examples on intonation. A hands-on session will fo
 llow\, in which the free R software package for FDA will be illustrated.\n
LOCATION:GR05\, English Faculty\, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site)
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