Best Practices in Authorship Attribution of English Essays

Logistic regression analysis is used to determine the best practices in authorship attribution for English essays, specifically examining the methods available in JGAAP version 4.3 and their performance on problem A of the AAAC corpus. Best practices were determined by ranking the logistic regression coefficient estimates and odds ratios for the set of predictor variables.

Name thesis:degree_name

MS

Level thesis:degree_level

Immediate Access

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Computational Mathematics

Year dc:date.available

2011

Author dc:creator

• Vescovi, Darren

Contributors dc:contributor

• Patrick Juola
• John C. Kern
• Donald Simon
• James Swindal

• Authorship attribution
• English essays
• Logistic regression

Language dc:language

English

Repository record dc:identifier

https://dsc.duq.edu/etd/1310

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dsc.duq.edu:etd-2326