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Statistical Background

In: Authorship Puzzles in the History of Economics

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  • D. P. O’Brien

    (University of Durham)

  • A. C. Darnell

    (University of Durham)

Abstract

There are three broad statistical approaches capable, in principle, of analysing literary problems, namely the Classical parametric, the Bayesian, and the non-parametric. The early developments all used Classical parametric techniques which, while showing promise in dealing with problems arising from Greek prose, have, generally speaking, not performed satisfactorily in applications to English prose, as noted in Chapter 1. Indeed, of all parametric approaches, by far the most successful application was within the realm of Bayesian analysis but, as indicated below, we are a little uneasy about the use of Bayesian statistics within the field. By contrast, techniques derived from non-parametric statistics, are, in our opinion, particularly well suited not only to the very questions of literary puzzles but also to the data generated by literary samples.

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  • D. P. O’Brien & A. C. Darnell, 1982. "Statistical Background," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Authorship Puzzles in the History of Economics, chapter 2, pages 14-30, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-05697-2_2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-05697-2_2
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