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Statistics - My aim is to investigate whether it is possible to gain information about authorship of a text by using statistical measures.
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Statistics Coursework - Authorship Design Aim My aim is to investigate whether it is possible to gain information about authorship of a text by using statistical measures. I will investigate the authorship of an Adult text and a Child text. I will calculate the mean of the distribution for both populations. From this, I will calculate the standard deviation and variance. I will use the unbiased estimator for both populations. I will calculate the standard error and confidence intervals for both populations. I will represent my data using frequency distribution tables. I will put my results into a frequency distribution graph. For the confidence intervals, I will use normal distribution diagrams. Hypothesis I predict that there will be more letters per word in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and fewer in Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl. Therefore, the mean in Great Expectations will also be larger. I expect Great Expectations to...
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