[R] R Solves Shakespeare Authorship Question

[Wacek Kusnierczyk]

Stavros Macrakis wrote:
> I don't know why this paper is getting our attention here -- it is just an
> undergraduate student term paper for a computer science course on statistics
> and data mining.
>   

"Those of you who track applications of R may be interested"

vQ

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> On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 5:48 PM, <p_connolly at slingshot.co.nz> wrote:
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>> On Sat, 30-May-2009 at 07:42PM -0700, Arthur Burke wrote:
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>> |> 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.
>>
>>
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>> |> 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<http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/%7Edatamining/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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