# Smith 2011: Improving Authorship Attribution: Optimizing Burrows' Delta Method

> Peter W. H. Smith, W. Aldridge, 2011. 1 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Listed as a reference on the Burrows' Delta method page.

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# Improving Authorship Attribution: Optimizing Burrows' Delta Method

Peter W. H. Smith, W. Aldridge, 2011. _Journal of Quantitative Linguistics_.

Tests how the choice and number of frequent words, the similarity measure and the corpus affect Burrows' Delta for authorship attribution, and reports a clear gain from switching to cosine similarity.

**Voynich Manuscript** Articledoi: **[10.1080/09296174.2011.533591](https://doi.org/10.1080/09296174.2011.533591)** Checked against the original0

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Smith, P. W. H., & Aldridge, W. (2011). Improving Authorship Attribution: Optimizing Burrows' Delta Method. Journal of Quantitative Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.1080/09296174.2011.533591
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