Textual statistics: an exploratory tool for the social sciences.
France Guérin‐Pace · PubMed · 1998
"The value of textual statistics is now widely acknowledged in many branches of the social sciences.... The statistical processing may be of responses to open questions, interviews, texts and even individual itineraries. The procedures are numerous and can be adapted to different kinds of material. The aim in the present article is to give a broad overview of the various applications of these methods, ranging from the most traditional to the most recent, and focusing on both the methodology used and the results obtained." (EXCERPT)