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But it's still significant to see that familial influence is so strong that it can be detected using stylometric techniques.

From Salon • Jan. 1, 2022

The most sophisticated form of stylometric analysis so far has been WAN, or word adjacency networks, which register the frequency and proximity of function words in relation to one another.

From New York Times • Nov. 24, 2021

The classic stylometric technique, begun in the late 1980s, was to tabulate the relative frequency of “function words” — words like “by” and “you” and “from” — and then to compare their numbers across manuscripts.

From New York Times • Nov. 24, 2021

That attribution might stick, but it’s unlikely to convert stylometric skeptics.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 19, 2017

Contemporary stylometric methods are more sophisticated, but the difference is one of degree, rather than kind.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 19, 2017