[Article] "Principal component analysis of characters in the Voynich manuscript

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There is a new paper about the VMS: "Principal component analysis of characters in the Voynich manuscript and their classifications based on comparative analysis of writings in known languages"

The paper by Jonas Alin can be found You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

The author concludes: 

the Voynich language, unlike the known languages, shows proportionally larger separation also along PC2 in its character transition frequencies, showing that the Voynich characters probably abide by more complex co-occurrence rules than characters of typical known languages.

An additional finding is: 

The Voynich character’s observation points were generally close together in the plot if the characters looked similar. That is, the more similar the characters look, the more similar would be their pattern of transition probabilities to other characters.