A Study on Authorial Consistency and Attribution : A Canonical Discriminant Analysis Approach
M Bagavandas, G. Manimannan · 2006
This study makes an to attempt to use statistical technique to establish authorial consistency in writing styles of three Tamil scholars and to attribute authorship to unattributed articles written in the same period using linguistic variables. The eighteen linguistic variables are eleven morphological variables, four habitual words and three function words. Canonical discriminant analysis is used to establish consistency and also for attribution.