A stylometric analysis of King Alfred's literary works

Journal of Applied Statistics

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1251-1258

  Gill, Paramjit S ^a   Swartz, Tim B ^b   Treschow, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agglomerative techniques; Bayesian methods; Classification; Dirichlet distribution; Disputed authorship; Entropy; Hierarchical clustering; Multinomial distribution; Old English

Indexed keywords

EID: 36849008697     PISSN: 02664763     EISSN: 13600532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02664760701592992     Document Type: Article

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