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Bayes Ascribes Authors
Dr Fu-Manchu Started conversation Apr 18, 2003
Bayesian analysis may offer an interesting line of enquiry for those investigating the origins of prose both literary and otherwise.
I propose that Bayesian analysis can ascribe texts to authors, by matching samples of known provenance to texts of doubtful origin. Further, it could be used to classify anonymous texts as coming from the same author, which has a use in the intelligence world of traffic analysis.
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