Yusuf Ali, surah-level binomial GLM Call: glm(formula = cbind(mentions, ayat - mentions) ~ place + log(ayat), family = binomial, data = QS[edition == "Abdullah Yusuf Ali (1934)"]) Coefficients: Estimate Std. Error z value Pr(>|z|) (Intercept) -5.8289 0.8845 -6.590 4.39e-11 *** placemakkah -2.1776 0.3107 -7.009 2.40e-12 *** log(ayat) 0.4957 0.1776 2.791 0.00526 ** --- Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1 (Dispersion parameter for binomial family taken to be 1) Null deviance: 222.26 on 113 degrees of freedom Residual deviance: 138.72 on 111 degrees of freedom AIC: 185.18 Number of Fisher Scoring iterations: 6 Meccan vs Medinan, pooled over all 10 English translations: place surahs ayat rate 1: makkah 86 4613 0.4292218 2: madinah 28 1623 3.4873691 By translation: Key: edition madinah makkah 1: A.J. Arberry (1955) 3.019100 0.2818123 2: Abdullah Yusuf Ali (1934) 3.019100 0.3034901 3: George Sale (1734) 4.682686 0.4335573 4: Hilali & Khan (1985) 6.654344 1.3657056 5: J.M. Rodwell (1861) 2.649415 0.3034901 6: M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (2004) 2.772643 0.2818123 7: M.H. Shakir (1982) 2.895872 0.3468459 8: Marmaduke Pickthall (1930) 2.895872 0.2384565 9: Muhammad Asad (1980) 3.142329 0.3685237 10: Mustafa Khattab, The Clear Quran (2015) 3.142329 0.3685237