Re: Authorship Testing

Ted Dunning (ted@crl.nmsu.edu)
Fri, 2 Feb 1996 11:21:30 -0700 (MST)

You may be interested in looking at the book "Applied Bayesian and Classical
Inference: The Case of the Federalist Papers" by Mosteller and Wallace,
Springer-Verlag, 1984

and my article:

@article{dunning93,
author={Ted E. Dunning},
title={Accurate Methods for the Statistics of Surprise
and Coincidence},
journal={Computational Linguistics},
volume=19,
number=1,
year=1993,
pages={61-74}
}

provides a test which works better than chi^2 tests for small counts.
this substantially eases authorship studies of the M&W sort.

software is available via my home page which is at
http://crl.nmsu.edu/users/CRLfolks/dunning.html