Investigate whether it is possible to gain information about authorship of a text using statistical measures.

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Aims, Strategies and Objectives

Aims 

Authorship- I am going to investigate whether it is possible to gain information about authorship of a text using statistical measures. The main advantage of using statistical measures is that they are easy to use and objective.

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Strategies

Compare the word lengths and sentence lengths of two novels one modern and one historical novel. The novels must be as different as possible so that the statistical theories will work.

Stats depend on an author’s style of writing and not the publishers efficient for example an author wont change the way he writes like words and sentence lengths will always be similar, but a publisher will change things like number of pages in a book or number of lines on a page.

Therefore I will take the random samples of the word lengths and sentence ...

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