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Hello, I was wondering if someone can explain to me how the concentration part of the word list is generated in the info pane for Accordance 12? Is it by frequency in Scripture, or is it relative to the word being a verb, noun, etc? 

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Its mark of how much the word is used locally vs. globally, like a local density.  For words like 'the' that are used a lot locally, but also a lot globally, it will be near the bottom of the list, because it isn't 'concentrated' in that verse at all.  But, if there is a word that is used a few times in the immediate context, but not much elsewhere in the entire text, it will be much higher on the list, because its usage is concentrated around that verse.

 

So, it doesn't have anything to do with verb or noun.  It also isn't necessarily a scientific evaluation, but it can provide some fascinating insight for unique or focused vocabulary that the author is using.

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Thanks for the clarification. Help files have: "Concentration: Words are ordered according to their relative importance in the verse," so maybe those files could link to this response from Joel, or include a condensation of it?

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Also, I didn't write the help, but I've been careful to not use the word importance, as that determination is made by the reader; Accordance can only measure usage frequency.

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I thought it was being computed in the same way that we define "Importance" in the "Set Analysis Display" dialog:

 

"Importance identifies those words which are most important in the current search range. This number is computed by multiplying the number of hits in the search range by the uniqueness of each word (as defined above)."

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