# Amancio 2013: Probing the statistical properties of unknown texts: application to the Voynich manuscript

> Diego R. Amancio, Eduardo G. Altmann, Diego Rybski et al., 2013. 4 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The book cites its network measures as…

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# Probing the statistical properties of unknown texts: application to the Voynich manuscript

Diego R. Amancio, Eduardo G. Altmann, Diego Rybski et al., 2013. _PLoS ONE_ 8(7): e67310.

Proposes a test of whether a text in an unknown script behaves like natural language, combining word statistics, word co-occurrence networks and intermittency measures. The method is calibrated on the New Testament in 15 languages and then applied to the Voynich Manuscript.

**Voynich Manuscript** Articledoi: **[10.1371/journal.pone.0067310](https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0067310)** Checked against the original0

## What it's used for here

The book cites its network measures as placing the manuscript among meaningful texts rather than shuffled controls; the methods surveys note that it works at a single scale and uses no generator controls.

## Cited by on this site 4 records

[Reading Without a Key](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0D8NJAWT22V4/reading-without-a-key)

The book, version 2.0

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[3 methods surveys]

Mathematics, linguistics, inductive methods

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Amancio, D. R., Altmann, E. G., Rybski, D., Oliveira, O. N., & Costa, L. d. F. (2013). Probing the statistical properties of unknown texts: application to the Voynich manuscript. PLoS ONE, 8(7), e67310. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0067310
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