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Sample Data: Mark Twain Authorship

Distribution of word lengths for Mark Twain and Quintus Curtius Snodgrass

Originator: Claude S. Brinegar

(3 columns, 13 rows)

Examples

Basic Examples

Retrieve the ResourceObject:

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ResourceObject["Sample Data: Mark Twain Authorship"]
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View the data:

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ResourceData["Sample Data: Mark Twain Authorship"]
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Visualization

Plot a comparison of Twain and Snodgrass word lengths:

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ListLinePlot[ Values[Normal[ ResourceData["Sample Data: Mark Twain Authorship"][ All, {"WordLength", #}]]] & /@ {"MarkTwain", "QCS"}]
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Analysis

Find the correlation between the two:

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N[Correlation @@ Normal[Transpose@ Values[ResourceData["Sample Data: Mark Twain Authorship"][ All, {"MarkTwain", "QCS"}]]]]
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Wolfram Research, "Sample Data: Mark Twain Authorship" from the Wolfram Data Repository (2016)   https://doi.org/10.24097/wolfram.25371.data

Data Resource History

  • Date Created:

Source Metadata

  • Title: Mark Twain Authorship
  • Creator: Brinegar, Claude S.
  • Publisher: Journal of the Royal Statistical Association, vol. 58, no.301
  • Date: 1963
  • Description: Distribution of word lengths for Mark Twain and Quintus Curtius Snodgrass.
  • Coverage: United States, 1861
  • Language: English
  • Source: Mark Twain and the Q.C.S.letters -- a statistical test of authorship

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Publisher Information

  • Publisher of Record: Wolfram Research