Quantitative corpus-based analysis of the chiropractic literature -- a pilot study.
In this pilot study, a collection of peer-reviewed articles from the Journal of the Canadian Chiropractic Association was analyzed by computer to identify the more commonly occurring words and phrases. The results were compared to a reference collection of general English in order to identify the vo...
| Published in: | Journal of the Canadian Chiropractic Association Vol. 55; no. 1; pp. 56 - 61 |
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Canadian Chiropractic Association
Mar2011
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