Automated Topic Analysis of the Voynich Manuscript

[oshfdk]

I don't think p values mean anything here. I think we agreed that it made little sense for the languages, but as it is now it makes no sense for the hands either. The null hypothesis is total independence, that is topics are uniformly randomly assigned to hands. Since we know that hands have certain preferences for languages, this makes the null hypothesis equally invalid, because it posits that there is no dependence of any kind.

Maybe in order to get some meaningful results, we need a less restrictive or more specific null hypothesis. For example, H0 is "within a single language topic assignment doesn't depend on hands" (that is, separate tests for language A and language B).