stylometryn.
/stʌɪˈlɒmɪtri/ The technique of making statistical analyses of the features of a literary style, esp. by means of a computer.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > [noun] > study of literary style
stylistics1883
stylistic1906
stylometry1945
the world > relative properties > number > probability or statistics > [noun] > statistics > study of > within specific field
statistics1797
biostatics1851
biostatistics1865
statistical mechanics1885
Bose–Einstein statistics1928
Bose statistics1931
stylometry1945
cliometrics1960
stylometric1968
bibliometrics1969
macrolinguistics1972
1945 R. G. Collingwood Idea of Nature 58 Scholars..have analysed the language of the Platonic dialogues statistically... Whatever view is taken of Platonic ‘stylometry’ in its more detailed development.
1972 Classical Q. May 89 (heading) The new stylometry.
1972 Classical Q. May 89 Stylometry can be defined as the use of numerical methods for the solution of literary problems.
1979 Sci. Amer. Nov. 34/3 Forensic stylometry is at least an inhibition to the temptation on the part of police officers to adjust the admissions they present in court.
Derivatives
styˈlometrist n. one who practises this technique.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > number > probability or statistics > [noun] > statistics > one who deals with > in specific subject
biostatistician1933
stylometrist1953
cliometrician1966
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > [noun] > study of literary style > one who
stylistician1939
stylometrist1953
1953 Classical Q. XLVII. 80 This admission that only equal amounts of text should have been compared..had the effect of largely invalidating his own and most earlier attempts to order the dialogues by relative affinities of style. Stylometrists ignored the warning... The effect was..to discredit mechanical stylometry.
1979 Sci. Amer. Nov. 34/2 The 50,000 words of the 14 epistles attributed to St. Paul are a challenge to the stylometrist.
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