[R] R Solves Shakespeare Authorship Question

[p_connolly at slingshot.co.nz]

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
|>

|> 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

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