Stylometry
Source: Science News
Bookish Math: Statistical tests are unraveling knotty literary mysteries
From the article, “Stylometry is now entering a golden era. In the past 15 years, researchers have developed an arsenal of mathematical tools, from statistical tests to artificial intelligence techniques, for use in determining authorship. They have started applying these tools to texts from a wide range of literary genres and time periods, including the Federalist Papers, Civil War letters, and Shakespeare’s plays. ‘We can now pretty accurately identify authorship�under the right conditions,’ says John Burrows, an emeritus English professor of the University of Newcastle in Australia.”

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