Zandberger-Senpai, Co-father of EVA,
This unworthy one thanks you for your detailed and as usual crystal clear reply!
Seriously though that's great. I'm with you now.
So if the underlying distribution is not Gaussian, what is it? Poisson or binomial maybe?
In biochemistry we often force the issue by using a log transformation or just get the 95 percentile non-parametrically by lining up the values in order and cutting off the top and tail.
Be that as it may, I guess with the VMS we have to go folio by folio or quire by quire then get the standard deviation of the results? Has this been done?
Lastly my big question would be, what would happen to the stats for the whole VMS if we slipped in a passage from the Bible in say Latin transcribed phonetically into Voynichese? This harking back to the steganography (WW2 thread)l and assuming perhaps 10% plaintext in a 90% covertext of pure Voynichese?
I bet the entropy stats would not be able to detect this. Your expert eyes would be a different matter, of course, depending on how cunning the author was.
This unworthy one thanks you for your detailed and as usual crystal clear reply!
Seriously though that's great. I'm with you now.
So if the underlying distribution is not Gaussian, what is it? Poisson or binomial maybe?
In biochemistry we often force the issue by using a log transformation or just get the 95 percentile non-parametrically by lining up the values in order and cutting off the top and tail.
Be that as it may, I guess with the VMS we have to go folio by folio or quire by quire then get the standard deviation of the results? Has this been done?
Lastly my big question would be, what would happen to the stats for the whole VMS if we slipped in a passage from the Bible in say Latin transcribed phonetically into Voynichese? This harking back to the steganography (WW2 thread)l and assuming perhaps 10% plaintext in a 90% covertext of pure Voynichese?
I bet the entropy stats would not be able to detect this. Your expert eyes would be a different matter, of course, depending on how cunning the author was.