Authorship attribution: The case of Oliver Goldsmith

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series D: The Statistician

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-18

  Mannion, David ^a   Dixon, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Mahalanobis distance; Outlier; Principal component analysis; Selection of variables

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347874890     PISSN: 00390526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9884.00055     Document Type: Article

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