Hit Concentration Report

Analyze the concentration of search hits.




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After you do a search, the Hit Concentration Report analyzes which sections of the text have the highest concentration of search hits. This report is most useful when searching for a list of words.

How to Use:
  1. Make a search.
  2. In the WordCruncher toolbar, go to Analyze > Search Results Report > Hit Concentration.

Tip: Click on a row to view context.

Hit Concentration


Report Data

Each row displays a section of the text that has search hits. Rows are sorted by sections with the highest concentration to lowest concentration. For each row, view the following data:

  • Citation: Where the search terms occur.
  • Hits: Number of times the search terms occur within the citation.
  • Unique: If you used All Forms in your search, this would show how many unique forms occur in the citation.
  • Total: Words within the citation.
  • Unique/Total: Unique forms divided by the total number of words in the citation.
  • Hits/Total: Number of hits divided by the total number of words in the citation.
  • Hits (subwords): Number of subwords in your search term within the citation.
  • Unique (subwords): Number of unique subwords in your search term within the citation.
Example:

Search for the most common 200 words and use the Hit Concentration Report to identify lower-level reading passages.

  1. Open the search window.
  2. In the WordWheel, click Frequency to sort words by frequency.
  3. Click the first word.
  4. Scroll down to number 200.

    5. If you do not see the Number column, right click on a column header and select Number.

  5. Press the Shift key on the keyboard and select number 200 (all 200 rows should be highlighted).
  6. Click Insert.
  7. Click Go.
  8. In the WordCruncher toolbar, go to Analyze > Search Results Report > Hit Concentration.

In General Conference Addresses, the report found a highly concentrated paragraph from a 2020 address by Jeffrey R. Holland. This paragraph had 174 hits out of a total of 283 words.

Hit Concentration




Settings

By default, the Hit Concentration Report will calculate the concentration of hits within each paragraph. You can modify the report to calculate the concentration within a specific range of words.

  1. In the WordCruncher toolbar, click Edit > Preferences....
  2. Click the Search Results Reports tab.
  3. In the Report box, select Hit Concentration.
  4. Select Range (adjacent anchor words).
  5. Modify the range width and word threshold.

    6. A range width of 10 and a word threshold of 4 will find results for 10-word sections that produce at least 4 hits.

  6. Click OK.