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	Variationist Sociolinguistics	การถดถอยโลจิสติก
สาขาวิชา	ภาษาศาสตร์	สถิติการวิจัย
ตระกูล	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
ปีกำเนิด	1972	1958
ผู้ริเริ่ม	William Labov	David Roxbee Cox
ประเภท	Quantitative field study of socially conditioned linguistic variation	Method
แหล่งต้นตำรับ	Labov, W. (1972). Sociolinguistic Patterns. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN: 9780812210521	Cox, D. R. (1958). The regression analysis of binary sequences. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, 20(2), 215–242.
ชื่อเรียกอื่น	Variationist Analysis, Labovian Sociolinguistics, Quantitative Sociolinguistics	logit model, binomial logistic regression, LR
ที่เกี่ยวข้อง	4	3
สรุป	Variationist sociolinguistics is the quantitative study of how linguistic variation is structured by social and linguistic factors. Pioneered by William Labov in the 1960s and 1970s, it treats alternative ways of saying the same thing — the 'linguistic variable' — as systematically conditioned by speaker characteristics (class, age, sex, ethnicity), stylistic context, and the surrounding linguistic environment, and it uses statistical modeling of natural speech to reveal the orderly heterogeneity beneath apparent randomness.	Logistic regression is a statistical method for modeling the probability of a binary outcome (disease present/absent, success/failure) as a function of continuous and categorical predictors. Developed by David Roxbee Cox (1958), it solves the problem of predicting categorical outcomes by applying a logistic transformation to constrain predictions to the [0,1] probability interval, enabling accurate risk stratification, diagnostic prediction, and causal inference in epidemiology, medicine, and social science.