# Thisted 1987: Did Shakespeare Write a Newly-Discovered Poem?

> Ronald Thisted, Bradley Efron, 1987. 1 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The inductive-methods survey adapts the method as a single-page…

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# Did Shakespeare Write a Newly-Discovered Poem?

Ronald Thisted, Bradley Efron, 1987. _Biometrika_.

Asks whether a newly found poem credited to Shakespeare matches the vocabulary of his known works, using an empirical Bayes model of word counts, with poems by Jonson, Marlowe and Donne as controls. The authors judge the fit to be reasonably good.

**Voynich Manuscript** Articledoi: **[10.2307/2336684](https://doi.org/10.2307/2336684)** Checked against the original0

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The inductive-methods survey adapts the method as a single-page provenance test, predicting how many new words a page should contain.

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Thisted, R., & Efron, B. (1987). Did Shakespeare Write a Newly-Discovered Poem?. Biometrika. https://doi.org/10.2307/2336684
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