To help settle the debate around the authorship of Tirant lo Blanc, we analyse the evolution of the diversity of the vocabulary used in that book, as measured through eight different diversity indices. The exploratory analysis reveals a clear single shift in diversity, that is estimated through...

To help settle the debate around the authorship of Tirant lo Blanc, all the words in each chapter of that book are categorized according to their length and the appearance of various words is counted. The graphical exploration of the sequences of multinomial observations obtained reveals a clear...

The analysis of word frequency count data can be very useful in authorship attribution problems. Zero-truncated generalized inverse Gaussian-Poisson mixture models are very helpful in the analysis of these kinds of data because their model-mixing density estimates can be used as estimates of the...