Spotlight on stylometric text analysis - The Avon Novels

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The Story of the Phantom

The Story of the Phantom is a series of 15 novels, published by Avon Publications in the U.S. from 1972 to 1975, based on Lee Falk's Phantom stories. When released the adaptor of issues 2 and 10 was not credited, and issue 15 was credited as Carson Bingham. Lee Falk did correct this using an "Author's note" in the books.

Adapted by issues note
Basil Copper 2, 3 #2 The adaptor is not credited
Carson Bingham 14
Frank S. Shawn 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11 #10 The adaptor is not credited
Lee Falk 1, 6, 9, 12, 15 #15 is wrongly credited as Carson Bingham
Warren Shanahan 13

The Corpus

The 15 novels: from chapter 1 to the end of the novel.

Using R

The novels were put into one corpus folder. Two analysis were done: first 0-902 MFW 2-gram and the second 0-902 MFC 3-grams. Both using the Boostrap Consensus Tree.

The result grouping the novels according to the table above, confirming Lee Falk's correction in the "Author's note".

  • MFW 2-gram

  • MFC 3-gram

Interesting the analysis grouping issues 13 and 14 with statistic similar style.

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