Are perfect-reduplication and quasi-reduplication related?

[MarcoP]

Not exactly. I'm saying that %red ~ %quasi/(n.Quasi/n.Red).

If n.Quasi and n.Red are independent variables (one being the count of perfect reduplications, the other the count of vords with edit distance = 1) , then this shouldn't happen? Or am I being thick?

Hi David,
as I said in the previous post, %red is proportional to n.Red. Your equation connects %red and n.Red, which indeed are not independent.

Let's call C the total number of couples in a sample:

(a1) %red = n.Red/C
(a2) %quasi = n.Quasi/C

(b) the right side of your equation
%quasi/(n.Quasi/n.Red)

© we can multiply numerator and denominator by n.Red/n.Quasi
%quasi/(n.Quasi/n.Red) = %quasi*n.Red/n.Quasi

(d) we can replace %quasi according to a2
%quasi*n.Red/n.Quasi = (n.Quasi/C)*n.Red/n.Quasi =
(n.Quasi*n.Red)/(n.Quasi*C) = n.Red/C = %red

So, yes, I think that (b) is equivalent to %red.
%quasi/(n.Quasi/n.Red)=%red

Does this make sense? Am I getting something wrong?

I found that the two % columns have a high correlation: 82%. Could this be an element in favour of the two phenomena being related?

How did you calculate the 82% rate?

I am sorry, I messed up something here: thank you for pointing that out. The correct correlation is 0.85 (I used the CORREL openOffice function to compute this). Does this seem correct do you?