Principal components analysis in stylometry.
Principal components analysis (PCA) has been one of the staple methods used in stylometry. In a 2021 article, Pervez Rizvi casts doubt on this method and argues that some widely cited results based on it should be set aside. In the current article, I show that none of Rizvi's theoretical claims or e...
| Publicado en: | Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Vol. 39; no. 1; pp. 97 - 109 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Apr2024
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