As a matter of statistical history that some of you may be unaware of, Mosteller and Tukey(I think) published an important paper on a similar topic (authorship of the Federalist Papers) about 25-30 years ago. I wonder if that was referenced in this one...
Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stavros Macrakis Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 3:25 PM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [R] R Solves Shakespeare Authorship Question I don't know why this paper is getting our attention here -- it is just an undergraduate student term paper for a computer science course on statistics and data mining. -s On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 5:48 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 30-May-2009 at 07:42PM -0700, Arthur Burke wrote: > > |> Those of you who track applications of R may be interested in the > following: > |> > |> "The purpose of this paper is then to apply modern > |> text analysis techniques using the R statistical packege [sic] > > That's not the only such typo. I had a very quick skim through the PDF > file and spotted half a dozen of them. Kind of calls into question > how reliable the list of words they used was, and thereby the > reliability of any conclusion. > > Either that, or my sense of humour is failing me. > > > > |> to compare the works attributed to Shakespeare > |> to those of leading alternate candidates such as Sir > |> Frances Bacon, Christopher Marlow, and Edward de > |> Vere...". > |> > |> http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~datamining/Final.pdf<http://www.cs.dartmouth.ed u/%7Edatamining/Final.pdf> > |> > > |> I await the creative use of R to solve other vexing problems in the > |> dramatic and performing arts such as the "Third Stooge Problem" and > |> whether there is any naughtiness in the Britney Spears song title, > |> "If You Seek Amy." > -- > > Patrick Connolly > > ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~ > I have the world`s largest collection of seashells. I keep it on all > the beaches of the world ... Perhaps you`ve seen it. ---Steven Wright > ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~ > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
