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I confess to not knowing what most of the numbers mean. But if Clement is the top match out of all author candidates and controls, surely that itself is somewhat remarkable. Either that, or a forger is purposely trying to fool stylometric analysis by copying sentence construction patterns from genu...

If using a 'z-scored p-value < 0.1' test, only 10 of 32 candidates are excluded. If using a 'z-scored p-value < 0.05' test, only 3 of 32 candidates are excluded. This seemed to be a handy metric of the validity of a result, so it's been baked into the printed results. For example, here are the resu...

And, just for fun, I separated out the quotes from the Stromata (marked by the editor with quotation marks, anyway) and compared them to Clement. It can't be verified as the writing of Clement of Alexandria. Well, that's good to know! testsize: 2663 $VAR1 = 59; $VAR2 = 29; $VAR3 = 64; $VAR4 = 147; $...

Just to complete the circle here, these are the results of using the samples from the 'Protrepticus' and the 'Paedagogus', compared against the 'Stromata' and using the 20 words used in all the other tests. Accuracy has improved. When compared with the controls included, accuracy improves from 80% t...

The 'Hymnus Christi servatoris' and the 'Eclogae propheticae' were also too short to be tested with this method.

There are no other works attributed to Clement of Alexandria in the TLG.

The Letter to Theodore .... As shown from the small frequencies of the 'words' measured, it is very difficult to use Clement's habits of style to identify a text only 749 words long. This is even though I didn't cull out the incipit and the long quote of the 'secret gospel.' If using a 'z-scored p-...

Same thing again... This time, with the 'fragments' of Clement that are contained in the TLG (4365 words, from various sources, mostly church fathers and catenae). I didn't do an excellent job of separating the introductory words or the paraphrases from the actual, explicit quotes (although I did tr...

I was able to get two samples from "Excerpts from Theodotus." I used the 20-word list again, with the text representing the candidate 'Clement' being an amalgam of the 'Protrepticus', 'Paedagogus', and 'Stromata'. Once again, the quotes were stripped out of Clement's text. Both results ind...

I was able to get two samples from "Who Is the Rich Man Who Will Be Saved?" I used the 20-word list again, with the text representing the candidate 'Clement' being an amalgam of the 'Protrepticus', 'Paedagogus', and 'Stromata'. Once again, the quotes were stripped out of Clement's text. Bo...

Bernard Muller wrote: OK, the above is not on my website, because there is very little evidence to support this hypothesis. And no link attack here! And I cannot be blamed for not using some imagination

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