stylostatisticsn.
/ˌstʌɪləʊstəˈtɪstɪks/ The application of statistical methods to the analysis of features of literary style.
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stylostatistics1956
1956 G. Herdan Lang. as Choice & Chance i. 8 The main division [of the book] is according to the four main branches of quantitative linguistics: Stylostastics, Statistical Linguistics, Information Theory, and Linguistic Duality.
1956 G. Herdan Lang. as Choice & Chance ii. 14 That the ‘mood’ of a text of considerable length should be reflected in the relative frequency of a linguistic form..,—this is precisely what stylostatistics claims to achieve.
1962 A. Ellegård Who was Junius? vi. 97 (heading) Identification by stylostatistics.
1964 G. Herdan in H. G. Lunt Proc. 9th Internat. Congr. Linguists 323 Stylostatistics leads to establishing the general laws for the use of language as a necessary preliminary of the determination of divergencies from these laws in individual style.
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