Särndal, Carl-Erik. On Deciding Cases of Disputed Authorship

• Author: Särndal, Carl-Erik
• Title: On Deciding Cases of Disputed Authorship
• Published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C (Applied Statistics) 16/3
• Year: 1967
• Pages: 251-68
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• Reference: Särndal, Carl-Erik. "On Deciding Cases of Disputed Authorship." Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C (Applied Statistics) 16/3 (1967): 251-68.

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• Key words: authorship (höfundur)

Annotation

Särndal compares the approach of Mosteller and Wallace in their 1964 study of the authorship of the Federalist Papers to that employed in three Swedish cases where the author of a text or texts is disputed, including a study by Hallberg (1962) of the authorship of Egils saga. The Swedish studies differ from that of Mosteller and Wallace in that they focus on rare words rather than common ones; they also "tend to form their opinion as to what constitutes a discriminating word by a comparison in which the disputed text itself takes part" (p. 256).

See also

• Hallberg, Peter. Snorri Sturluson och Egils Saga Skallagrímssonar: ett försök till språklig författarbestämning

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