This book is an introduction to statistics for linguists using the open source programming language and environment R in order to conduct quantitative studies. The author explains statistical concepts, tests, and graphs, as well as the design of tables to store and analyze data and some basic aspects of experimental design. He describes how to do the statistical methods examined "by hand"--thus providing insight into the logic of the statistical tests (while avoiding anything requiring mathematical expertise)--as well as with the software. He covers methods of descriptive statistics, analytical statistics, and mutifactorial procedures for the simultaneous investigation of several potential cause-effect relations. The book is paired with a companion website containing exercise files, data files, answer keys, errata, et cetera. A Google newsgroup is also available for questions and discussion. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)