• Title of article

    Diversity of vocabulary and homogeneity of literary style

  • Author/Authors

    Alex Riba & Josep Ginebra، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2006
  • Pages
    13
  • From page
    729
  • To page
    741
  • Abstract
    To help settle the debate around the authorship of Tirant lo Blanc, we analyse the evolution of the diversity of the vocabulary used in that book, as measured through eight different diversity indices. The exploratory analysis reveals a clear single shift in diversity, that is estimated through change-point techniques to be in chapter 382, and might indicate the existence of one main author writing about four fifths of the book, and of a second author finishing the last one fifth of the book. Before chapter 382, the language is richer and more diverse than after it.
  • Keywords
    inverse Gaussian–Poisson mixture , Change-point analysis , Sichel distribution , stylometry , Simpson Index
  • Journal title
    JOURNAL OF APPLIED STATISTICS
  • Serial Year
    2006
  • Journal title
    JOURNAL OF APPLIED STATISTICS
  • Record number

    712070