The Zeta and Iota Spreadsheet
Copyright © 2008 by David L. Hoover
This
spreadsheet
with macros accepts as input raw word frequency lists
and analyzes authorship using John Burrows's Zeta and Iota. To learn how to use
this sheet, select "Using the Zeta-Iota Worksheet",
below.
The
spreadsheet and macros presented here may be used and distributed
freely by anyone, so long as its use is acknowledged in any published
work. I would also appreciate hearing about any modifications or
improvements you may make.
Use it at your own risk. I have not discovered any problems in using
it, but cannot guarantee it will not cause any.
For
a discussion of Zeta and Iota and their use, see the following articles:
- Burrows, J. F. (2005). “Who Wrote Shamela? Verifying the Authorship of a Parodic Text.” Literary and Linguistic Computing 20: 437-450.
- Burrows, John F. (2006). “All
the Way Through: Testing for Authorship in Different Frequency Strata,”Literary
and Linguistic Computing 22: 27-47.
- Hoover, D. L. (2007). "Corpus
Stylistics, Stylometry, and the Styles of Henry James," Stye
41(2): 160-89.
- Hoover, D. L. (2007). “Quantitative Analysis and
Literary Studies,” A Companion to Digital Literary
Studies, Oxford: Blackwell: 517-33.
- Hoover, D. L. (2008). “Searching for Style in Modern American Poetry,” in Sonia Zyngier, et. al. (eds), Directions in Empirical Literary Studies: Essays in Honor of Willie van Peer, Amsterdam: John Benjamins: 211-27.
Current
Version (2008):
Note: the distribution version contains some data from previous
analyses. This is intentional, allowing anyone wanting to try it to
run an analysis already prepared.
Macro Descriptions and Instructions: