Word repetition analysis of the different hands

[Jorge_Stolfi]

So to test this, I wrote some code to analyze the variations of word repetition among the 5 different known hands. In summary, these are the results (from the RF EVA transcription given You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.):

Code:

Hand      | Total Words  |  2-Word Repetitions  | 3-Word Repetitions ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1          | 8,626        | 64                  | 1                2          | 8,947        | 60                  | 2                3          | 11,547       | 62                  | 1                4          | 654          | 2                   | 0                5          | 866          | 1                   | 0

Thanks for the intriguing and useful results!  

However, different "hands" may mean different topics; and it seems that word statistics are largely specific to topic, as one would expect.  Even the difference between Herbal-A and Herbal-B may be a consequence of those texts having been taken from two different sources. 

Can you see a difference between two hands on the same section  (Herbal_A, Herbal-B, Bio, etc..)?

All the best, --stolfi