31-08-2023, 08:12 AM
(30-08-2023, 07:08 PM)Torsten wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.However, you wrote the referenced webpage in 2016. Davis on the other side didn't wrote anything about Scribe 4 before 2020. Therefore Scribe 4 is not even mentioned on your web page. This is what you actually wrote back in 2016: "The very common character combination <qo> is almost completely absent in the zodiac pages and the rosettes page, but appears everywhere else." [Zandbergen 2016, You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.]. Anyway, since you wrote the webpage back in 2016 it is not possible to use this webpage as independent confirmation of a hypotheses published in 2020.
I wrote the two related web pages around 2000. Any later dates can only have been a minor update.
But in any case that is irrelevant.
Textual statistics (frequencies of characters, words, combinations) were not an input to the handwriting analysis of Lisa. She may have pointed to them to indicate some correlation, but that is obviously a different thing.
It is premature to mix them. Future work may find correlations or it may not. This is because the textual statistics would be affected by a combination of:
- subject matter, in case the text is meaningful
- arbitrary impact from having too small samples, or samples of very different lengths
- encoding strategy, in case the text is meaningful and has been encoded.
- different scribes applying different ways to implement author's instructions (similar to the third point)
We cannot separate this yet.
The topic of this variation of textual statistics per page continues to interest me, and I am only too much aware of the shortcomings in the two pages I have on this topic.
In the first case I used words, but that has a number of inherent problems, not just the dimensionality and the undersampling. That's why I used bigrams in the second case, for which the sampling is much better. However, I made a sub-optimal use of the cosine function.
For the time being I am concentrating on other things...