# Evert 2017: Understanding and explaining Delta measures for authorship attribution

> Stefan Evert, Fotis Jannidis, Thomas Proisl et al., 2017. 1 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Listed as a reference on the Burrows' Delta method…

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# Understanding and explaining Delta measures for authorship attribution

Stefan Evert, Fotis Jannidis, Thomas Proisl et al., 2017. _Digital Scholarship in the Humanities_.

Explains why Burrows' Delta works, using controlled experiments that vary feature scaling and distance measure to see which choices give correct authorship attributions.

**Voynich Manuscript** Articledoi: **[10.1093/llc/fqx023](https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqx023)** Checked against the original0

## What it's used for here

Listed as a reference on the Burrows' Delta method page.

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[Burrows' Delta](https://mysteriesdept.com/methods/MTH08JFXFB81N4X/burrows-delta)

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## Cite it

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Evert, S., Jannidis, F., Proisl, T., Reger, I., Pielström, S., Schöch, C., & Vitt, T. (2017). Understanding and explaining Delta measures for authorship attribution. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqx023
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