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Aim: the aim of this investigation is to determine whether it is possible to gain information about authorship of a text using statistical measures. I will be comparing two books, the first aimed at an adult audience and the second aimed at a child which is written using a lower form of English literacy. I will be comparing the complexities of the two books using a statistical manner by calculating the average number of words per sentence and the average number of letters per word in each book. Using this information I will then calculate confidence intervals which are what I will aim to compare between the two books. I have chosen to investigate these two areas as neither are effected by font size or the number of lines on a page/words per line. The final outcome of this investigation should give the relevant evidence to distinguish between which of the...

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