VM TTR values

[Koen G]

Koen, why do your recent VM graphs look so different from You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. regarding small window sizes? Are they smoothed and extrapolated towards 0? It would be helpful to display the actual data points in the graphs as dots.

I must admit that I was struck with a mild panic when you pointed this out, but then I realized the answer is simple: the reference corpus is different, so the mean and stdev are different, so the normalization creates different shapes. In my initial corpus, there was a huge number of Greek texts because I had found a large number of them readily available in txt format. I have since reduced their number drastically to balance things out a bit. 

When I have some more time, I am going to try normalizing to shuffled text though, and see if that makes a difference. My main goal here is to find a way to present TTR information that allows us to compare and understand what's going on. As usual, it will be an iterative process  I will also include measurements for 2 and 4.