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A command in the Candidates menu of the FormantPathEditor window.
The stress criterion S is defined in Weenink (2015) as
S = (s2 / k)varianceExponent (χ2 / d), |
where s2 is the sum of the squares of the standard errors of all the coefficients of the modelled formant tracks within one Formant object, k is the total number of coefficients of these tracks, in the example given above k is 10 (= 4 + 3 + 3), χ2 is the sum of the chi squares of each track, d is the sum of the degrees of freedom of each track. Because the standard error s is proportional to bandwidth and χ2 is inversely proportional to bandwidth, the expression for S grows approximately as 2·varianceExponent-2 with bandwidth. Setting the varianceExponent somewhat larger than one guarantees that for two tracks whose formants only differ in their bandwidths, the track with the larger bandwidths obtains a larger value for the stress value S.
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