Item Detail
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32240
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12
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English
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Stylometric Analysis of the Book of Mormon : A Short History
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Journal of the Book of Mormon and other Restoration Scripture
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21
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1
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Provo, UT
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Brigham Young University
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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 1850s, 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 1960s 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." [Author]
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A Stylometric Analysis of Mormon Scripture and Related Texts
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Comparative Power of Three Author-Attribution Techniques for Differentiating Authors
Mormonism Unvailed : Or, a Faithful Account of That Singular Imposition and Delusion From Its Rise to the Present Time
Not Enough Trouble
On Verifying Wordprint Studies : Book of Mormon Authorship
Personal Writings of Joseph Smith
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
Trouble Enough : Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon
Who Really Wrote the Book of Mormon? The Critics and Their Theories
Who Wrote the Book of Mormon? An Analysis of Wordprints