Introduction

D. P. O’Brien and A. C. Darnell
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D. P. O’Brien: University of Durham
A. C. Darnell: University of Durham

Chapter 1 in Authorship Puzzles in the History of Economics, 1982, pp 1-13 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Authorship puzzles are hardly a new problem. The various fears, pressures, and literary conventions, which have induced authors, particularly in earlier centuries, to withhold their names from publications, have resulted in a series of problems of authorship attribution which have exercised scholars for generations.

Keywords: Word Length; Sentence Length; Discriminatory Variable; Formal Statistical Test; Literary Convention (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1982
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-05697-2_1

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