[nickcarraway]

AUTHOR SWITCH. The modern cover of The Royal Book of Oz lists Ruth Plumly Thompson, not L. Frank Baum, as the author. A new mathematical analysis supports that attribution

DISTINCT STYLES. Points representing texts by L. Frank Baum (black dots) are far separated from those of texts by Ruth Plumly Thompson (open circles). A statistical analysis places the disputed volume, The Royal Book of Oz (hearts), in Thompson's half of the plane. It correctly classifies Glinda of Oz (clubs), the last book indisputably written by Baum, in his half.

[AmericanMade1776]

just forwarded this to my daughter, as she is taking statistics , and read all the Frank Baum Books when she was small.

[Fitzcarraldo]

I suppose now they will be trying this on the Bible.

[LTCJ]

Self Ping for later.

[68skylark]

This is interesting. Thanks -- good post.

[Restorer]

So can they tell if Shakespeare or Bacon wrote the plays?

Should be more than enough text around.

[LibWhacker]

All you Freepers out there who are posting under nine different screennames . . . WE KNOW WHO YOU ARE, BWAHAHAhahahaha!!

[Socratic]

Interesting. Thanks. (It's a good thing this post is too short for them to track down my stylistic attributes).

[ellery]

Interesting-bump.