John D. Cook • 1/20/2026

Stylometry

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The article introduces stylometry, the statistical analysis of writing style, prompted by its use in analyzing a text by historian Flavius Josephus. It links to previous posts on related topics, including authorship attribution for the Federalist Papers, using TF-IDF, natural language processing, and statistical laws like Heaps' and Zipf's law.

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