Word repetition analysis of the different hands

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This can be explained partly by the fact that hand 1 words are shorter. Look at the length distributions below. ( Paragraph data from GC transliteration with characters 101-C converted to ee . ) Also hand 3 words are mostly from quire 20. Hand 2 words are mostly from quire 13. And it is known that quire 13 words have less variability than in the rest of the manuscript. There is a high frequency of just a few words. 9 words make up 20% of the total with qok words dominating. In quire 20 20% of the text is made up of 16 words. ( You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. )

All this will add bias to the frequencies of repeats.

Hand 1:
(  1    586    5.4 % ) 
(  2  1468  13.6 % ) 
(  3  3318  30.7 % ) 
(  4  2309  21.4 % ) 
(  5  1804  16.7 % ) 
(  6    918    8.5 % ) 
(  7    300    2.8 % ) 
(  8    72    0.7 % ) 
(  9    14    0.1 % ) 
(  10      5    0.0 % ) 

( avg. = 3.71 )


Hand 2:
(  1    374    3.3 % ) 
(  2  1516  13.5 % ) 
(  3  2341  20.8 % ) 
(  4  2772  24.6 % ) 
(  5  2383  21.2 % ) 
(  6  1234  11.0 % ) 
(  7    542    4.8 % ) 
(  8    77    0.7 % ) 
(  9    18    0.2 % ) 
(  10      7    0.1 % ) 
(  11      1    0.0 % ) 

( avg. = 4.04 )

Hand 3:
(  1    631    4.8 % ) 
(  2  1922  14.5 % ) 
(  3  2414  18.3 % ) 
(  4  3034  23.0 % ) 
(  5  2740  20.7 % ) 
(  6  1606  12.2 % ) 
(  7    689    5.2 % ) 
(  8    139    1.1 % ) 
(  9    31    0.2 % ) 
(  10      8    0.1 % ) 

( avg. = 4.05 )