"loc.gov" lists two books on this topic:
* Mosteller and Wallace (1964) Inference and disputed
authorship, The Federalist (Addison-Wesley)
* Mosteller and Wallace (1984) Applied Bayesian and
classical inference : the case of the Federalist papers, 2nd ed. of
Inference and disputed authorship, The Federalist (Springer)
If I needed to do this, I would start by searching R contributed
packages as follows:
library(RSiteSearch)
tp <- RSiteSearch.function('text processing')
HTML(tp) # 78 help pages in 45 packages, 9 in XML
most <- RSiteSearch.function('Mosteller')
HTML(most) # 27 help pages in 19 packages
tm <- tp&most
HTML(tm) # nothing
The empty intersection "tm" indicates that I would have to hunt
more and perhaps write my own functions to replicate the analyses of
Mosteller and Wallace. However, one of the 27 pages identified in the
search for "Mosteller" is "MWwords" in the "alr3" package, companion to
Weisberg (2005) Applied Linear Regression, 3rd edition (Wiley). With
luck, that package may help me replicate or improve on the Mosteller and
Wallace tools.
Spencer Graves
Bert Gunter wrote:
As a matter of statistical history that some of you may be unaware of,
Mosteller and Tukey(I think) published an important paper on a similar topic
(authorship of the Federalist Papers) about 25-30 years ago. I wonder if
that was referenced in this one...
Bert Gunter
Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics
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Subject: Re: [R] R Solves Shakespeare Authorship Question
I don't know why this paper is getting our attention here -- it is just an
undergraduate student term paper for a computer science course on statistics
and data mining.
-s
On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 5:48 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
On Sat, 30-May-2009 at 07:42PM -0700, Arthur Burke wrote:
|> Those of you who track applications of R may be interested in the
following:
|>
|> "The purpose of this paper is then to apply modern
|> text analysis techniques using the R statistical packege [sic]
That's not the only such typo. I had a very quick skim through the PDF
file and spotted half a dozen of them. Kind of calls into question
how reliable the list of words they used was, and thereby the
reliability of any conclusion.
Either that, or my sense of humour is failing me.
|> to compare the works attributed to Shakespeare
|> to those of leading alternate candidates such as Sir
|> Frances Bacon, Christopher Marlow, and Edward de
|> Vere...".
|>
|>
http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~datamining/Final.pdf<http://www.cs.dartmouth.ed
u/%7Edatamining/Final.pdf>
|>
|> I await the creative use of R to solve other vexing problems in the
|> dramatic and performing arts such as the "Third Stooge Problem" and
|> whether there is any naughtiness in the Britney Spears song title,
|> "If You Seek Amy."
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