Paper ID: 2407.10301

Does Burrows' Delta really confirm that Rowling and Galbraith are the same author?

Boris Orekhov

The stylo package includes a frequency table that can be used to calculate distances between texts and thus independently solve the problem of attribution of The Cuckoo's Calling, a novel that J.K. Rowling said she wrote. However, the set of texts for this table is very vulnerable to criticism. The authors there are not modern, they wrote in a different genre. I set out to test the performance of the method on texts that are more relevant to the research question.

Submitted: Jul 14, 2024