Data Tables

Data tables (or matrices) are made up of rows and columns, and of values recorded in the respective cells. They allow us to synthesize - in an orderly manner - either the observations to be analysed (input), or the results obtained by the analyses (output).

For more than one reason, statisticians say that a successful analysis is obtained only through the building of a "good table".

In T-LAB, depending on the types of analyses, there are three different tables, corresponding to as many ways of building crossings among rows and columns:

1 - words (or lemmas) in rows and variable categories in columns;

2 - context units (i.e. documents or elementary contexts) in rows and words (or lemmas) in columns;

3 - words (or lemmas) in rows and columns.