Item Detail
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26890
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English
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Stylometric Analyses of the Book of Mormon :
A Short History -
Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture
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2012
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21
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1
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Provo, UT
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Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
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28-45
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The abundance of skeptical theories about who wrote the Book of Mormon has led many scholars to seek scientific data to discover the answer. One technique is stylometry. Having first been developed in the 1850's, stylometry seeks to find the "wordprint" of a text. Although these stylistic studies are not as accurate as a human's fingerprint, they can give researchers a good idea either of differences in style between authors or of who might have written a text from a list of possible authors. Beginning in the 1960's individuals have completed four major stylometric studies on the Book of Mormon, studies that varied in both findings and quality of research. In addition, to these four studies, this article presents a fifth study-using extended nearest shrunken centroid (ENSC) classification-that incorporates and improves on the earlier research.
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A Stylometric Analysis of Mormon Scripture and Related Texts
Mormonism Unvailed : Or, a Faithful Account of That Singular Imposition and Delusion From Its Rise to the Present Time
Reassessing Authorship of the Book of Mormon Using Delta and Nearest Shrunken Centroid Classification
The Printer's Manuscript of the Book of Mormon : Typographical Facsimile of the Entire Text in Two Parts
Who Really Wrote the Book of Mormon? The Critics and Their Theories
Who Wrote the Book of Mormon? An Analysis of Wordprints