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Pictish symbols revealed as a written language through application of Shannon entropy
Rob Lee, Philip Jonathan, Pauline Ziman, 2010. Proceedings of the Royal Society A 466(2121), 2545-2560.
Proposes a two-parameter decision tree, using entropy measures, that classifies small symbol corpora by type of communication system, and finds the Pictish symbols unlikely to be random or heraldic and consistent with writing.
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The main statistical claim that the symbols are language.
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Lee, R., Jonathan, P., & Ziman, P. (2010). Pictish symbols revealed as a written language through application of Shannon entropy. Proceedings of the Royal Society A 466(2121), 2545-2560. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2010.0041
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title = {Pictish symbols revealed as a written language through application of Shannon entropy},
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year = {2010},
doi = {10.1098/rspa.2010.0041},
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Lee, Rob et al.. “Pictish symbols revealed as a written language through application of Shannon entropy.” Proceedings of the Royal Society A 466(2121), 2545-2560 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2010.0041.