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'Delta': a Measure of Stylistic Difference and a Guide to Likely Authorship

J. Burrows, 2002. Literary and Linguistic Computing.

Sets out Burrows's Delta, which compares texts by the standardized frequencies of their most common words, and reports extensive trials of it as a guide to authorship.

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What it's used for here

The Burrows' Delta method page is based on it, and the inductive-methods survey proposes unsupervised Delta with bootstrap consensus for grouping pages.

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Burrows, J. (2002). 'Delta': a Measure of Stylistic Difference and a Guide to Likely Authorship. Literary and Linguistic Computing. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/17.3.267
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