Document Type
Article
Keywords
Ngrams; war; money; cost of war; statistics
Identifier Data
https://doi.org/10.4236/ahs.2022.114016
Publisher
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc.
Rights Management
Copyright © 2022 by author(s) and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY 4.0).
Abstract
The second and fourth authors have been inviting Intro to Applied Analytics and Statistics 1 students to use the Ngram Database to explore historical topics of their choosing. This is the first article derived from this exercise. The first author examined the historical relationship between war and money from 1775 to 2005 in the American English corpus. This is followed by an examination of the 3-gram “cost of war” in the American English and British English corpora. Specific to the analyses presented here several military and economic events are discussed. More specifically, both economies and wars are somewhat unpredictable, with wars being more so. Through this exercise, more experience with statistics and a greater appreciation of history are achieved.
