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Authorship
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S1 Task D: Authorship You are required to collect data from a population with a view to estimating population parameters (e.g. µ and 2) by using the estimation techniques in this module. This should involve taking a random sample as well as calculating and comparing confidence intervals. Investigate whether it is possible to gain information about authorship of a text using statistical measures: e.g> Modern text v Historical text> Books by the same authors> Adult text v Child's text, etc. AIM My aim is to investigate how sizes of sentences differ in comparing an Adult text with a Child's text. The adult text I will be using is called 'Jurassic Park' and the Child's text I will be using is called 'A treasury of stories from Hans Christian Anderson.' It would usually be assumed that a child's text would have smaller sentences and smaller words - I will be investigating whether this is true...
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