Monday, November 08, 2010

Jane Austen

Word frequency usage often shows a logarithmic pattern (e.g., Zipf's distribution). What about fractals? (Click to enlarge graphics; backspace to return to this blog post.)














I suppose one might assume that Jane Austen would draw on the same vocabulary in each novel. How similar are these relationships among the six?

 
The similarity in slopes of the six curves suggests that common vocabulary.

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