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Digital humanities

a stylometric measure that contrasts authors through middle-frequency words used consistently by one writer and avoided by another.

In digital humanities, Burrows's Zeta refers to a stylometric measure that contrasts authors through middle-frequency words used consistently by one writer and avoided by another. This meaning comes from Burrows (2006) in Literary and Linguistic Computing.[1]

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Burrows, J. (2006). All the Way Through: Testing for Authorship in Different Frequency Strata. Literary and Linguistic Computing, 22(1), 27-47. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqi067

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