Hello Torsten,
Yes, the variations in counts per page are high for qokeey, but I would rather focus on shorter patterns, far more numerous. In a natural language short patterns are less dependent on meaning and therefore their frequency does not vary so much with topic. I want to calculate the probability of the actual statistics assuming the distribution is uniform. Of course it is not uniform, but this is only to measure how far we are from a uniform distribution.
The statistical anomalies at the page scale in Q13 and Q20 are less obvious it seems, they look relatively homogeneous. You need to count words to see the differences between pages, at the quire scale. On the other hand you have Herbal A pages like You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. that have way too many "or", which is immediately visible at the line or paragraph scale. Variation of frequency of 'ed', 'ho', 'in' in Q13 and Q20 don't look as extreme, visually, on voynichese.com. 'or' looks even more unevenly distributed in Q20 than these three, but I haven't done the calculations.
Quoting Nick Pelling, Q13 and Q20 are "the two large relatively homogeneous blocks of text": You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
Yes, the variations in counts per page are high for qokeey, but I would rather focus on shorter patterns, far more numerous. In a natural language short patterns are less dependent on meaning and therefore their frequency does not vary so much with topic. I want to calculate the probability of the actual statistics assuming the distribution is uniform. Of course it is not uniform, but this is only to measure how far we are from a uniform distribution.
The statistical anomalies at the page scale in Q13 and Q20 are less obvious it seems, they look relatively homogeneous. You need to count words to see the differences between pages, at the quire scale. On the other hand you have Herbal A pages like You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. that have way too many "or", which is immediately visible at the line or paragraph scale. Variation of frequency of 'ed', 'ho', 'in' in Q13 and Q20 don't look as extreme, visually, on voynichese.com. 'or' looks even more unevenly distributed in Q20 than these three, but I haven't done the calculations.
Quoting Nick Pelling, Q13 and Q20 are "the two large relatively homogeneous blocks of text": You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.