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Bolton Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author and Alan Roberts Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author H. C. Bolton Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author and Alan Roberts Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author Published:01 July 1995https://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.1995.0029 Abstract There has been much scholarly activity in literary textual analysis; problems have included the literary analysis of characters, the disputed authorship of texts, hidden insertions in another hand and the continuation of incomplete texts. Classically the interpretations of these literary problems are given in terms of literary judgements, but there are no reasons to forbid numerical arguments based on statistical techniques, and it is to be hoped that literary and statistical judgements are seen not as contradictory but as complementary. If we can use the much-burdened word ‘style’, then we would hope that the choice between the use of literary and statistical judgements can be viewed as an exercise of style by the person making the judgement. Footnotes This text was harvested from a scanned image of the original document using optical character recognition (OCR) software. As such, it may contain errors. Please contact the Royal Society if you find an error you would like to see corrected. Mathematical notations produced through Infty OCR. Previous Article Next Article Access options Sign in for Fellows of the Royal Society Please access the online journals via the Fellows’ Room Not a subscriber? You canrequest a library trial. Personal login Username or email Password Forgot password? 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