kernelPhil - Kernel Smoothing Tools for Philology and Historical Dialectology
Contains kernel smoothing tools designed for use by
historical dialectologists and philologists for exploring
spatial and temporal patterns in noisy historical language
data, such as that obtained from historical texts. The main way
in which these might differ from other implementations of
kernel smoothing is that they assume that the function
(linguistic variable) being explored has the form of the
relative frequency of a series of discrete possibilities
(linguistic variants). This package also offers a way of
exploring distributions in 2-dimensional space and in time with
separate kernels, and tools for identifying appropriate
bandwidths for these.
