Alternative ways to estimate change points in multinomial sequences. An application to an authorship attribution problem

The statistical analysis of literary style is the part of stylometry that compares measurable characteristics in a text that are rarely controlled by the author, with those in other texts. When the goal is to settle authorship questions, these characteristics should relate to the author’s style and not to the genre, epoch or editor, and they should be such that their variation between authors is larger than the variation within comparable texts from the same author. For an overview of the literature on stylometry and some of the techniques involved, see for example Mosteller and Wallace (1964, 82), Herdan (1964), Morton (1978), Holmes (1985), Oakes (1998) or Lebart, Salem and Berry (1998). Tirant lo Blanc, a chivalry book, is the main work in catalan literature and it was hailed to be “the best book of its kind in the world” by Cervantes in Don Quixote. Considered by writters like Vargas Llosa or Damaso Alonso to be the first modern novel in Europe, it has been translated several times into Spanish, Italian and French, with modern English translations by Rosenthal (1996) and La Fontaine (1993). The main body of this book was written between 1460 and 1465, but it was not printed until 1490. There is an intense and long lasting debate around its authorship sprouting from its first edition, where its introduction states that the whole book is the work of Martorell (1413?-1468), while at the end it is stated that the last one fourth of the book is by Galba (?-1490), after the death of Martorell. Some of the authors that support the theory of single authorship are Riquer (1990), Chiner (1993) and Badia (1993), while some of those supporting the double authorship are Riquer (1947), Coromines (1956) and Ferrando (1995). For an overview of this debate, see Riquer (1990). Neither of the two candidate authors left any text comparable to the one under study, and therefore discriminant analysis can not be used to help classify chapters by author. By using sample texts encompassing about ten percent of the book, and looking at word length and at the use of 44 conjunctions, prepositions and articles, Ginebra and Cabos (1998) detect heterogeneities that might indicate the existence of two authors. By analyzing the diversity of the vocabulary, Riba and Ginebra (2000) estimates that stylistic boundary to be near chapter 383. Following the lead of the extensive literature, this paper looks into word length, the use of the most frequent words and into the use of vowels in each chapter of the book. Given that the features selected are categorical, that leads to three contingency tables of ordered rows and therefore to three sequences of multinomial observations. Section 2 explores these sequences graphically, observing a clear shift in their distribution. Section 3 describes the problem of the estimation of a suden change-point in those sequences, in the following sections we propose various ways to estimate change-points in multinomial sequences; the method in section 4 involves fitting models for polytomous data, the one in Section 5 fits gamma models onto the sequence of Chi-square distances between each row profiles and the average profile, the one in Section 6 fits models onto the sequence of values taken by the first component of the correspondence analysis as well as onto sequences of other summary measures like the average word length. In Section 7 we fit models onto the marginal binomial sequences to identify the features that distinguish the chapters before and after that boundary. Most methods rely heavily on the use of generalized linear models

Field dependence-independence (FDI) congnitive style : an analysis of attentional functioning. ' Estilo cognitivo dependencia-independencia de campo : un análisis del funcionamiento atencional'.

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A Negotiation Style Recommender Based on Computational Ecology in Open Negotiation Environments

The system described herein represents the first example of a recommender system in digital ecosystems where agents negotiate services on behalf of small companies. The small companies compete not only with price or quality, but with a wider service-by-service composition by subcontracting with other companies. The final result of these offerings depends on negotiations at the scale of millions of small companies. This scale requires new platforms for supporting digital business ecosystems, as well as related services like open-id, trust management, monitors and recommenders. This is done in the Open Negotiation Environment (ONE), which is an open-source platform that allows agents, on behalf of small companies, to negotiate and use the ecosystem services, and enables the development of new agent technologies. The methods and tools of cyber engineering are necessary to build up Open Negotiation Environments that are stable, a basic condition for predictable business and reliable business environments. Aiming to build stable digital business ecosystems by means of improved collective intelligence, we introduce a model of negotiation style dynamics from the point of view of computational ecology. This model inspires an ecosystem monitor as well as a novel negotiation style recommender. The ecosystem monitor provides hints to the negotiation style recommender to achieve greater stability of an open negotiation environment in a digital business ecosystem. The greater stability provides the small companies with higher predictability, and therefore better business results. The negotiation style recommender is implemented with a simulated annealing algorithm at a constant temperature, and its impact is shown by applying it to a real case of an open negotiation environment populated by Italian companies

A Self-Scoring Exercise On APA Style, Research Language, and Referencing for Undergraduate Students

Based on examples provided by 27 graduate psychology faculty, this self-test incorporates many of the more common errors in style, language, and referencing found in student papers. Taking this self-test helps students to recognize common errors and encourages them to refer the APA Publication Manual on a regular basis. In addition, students begin to think about how to use correctly the language of psychological research. This self-test should take about 30 minutes to complete and score. It is composed of three parts: a) a mock Discussion section, where students are asked to act as editors and find the errors, p. 2 (10 minutes). b) a corrected Discussion section, where students find the errors they missed, p. 3 (5 minutes) and, c) a full description of each error with illustrations of correct usage, pp. 4-7 (15 minutes). This exercise assumes some knowledge of APA style. Thus, it is best-suited for advanced undergraduates who need to write research reports and all levels of graduate students. It may be taken at home or in class. Although the self-test is designed to be fully self-directed, instructors may wish to use it at the beginning or end of a classroom discussion on APA style. It could also be used in a pre-test-post-test fashion to evaluate students learning over the course of a term.

IEEE style guide

formal style guide from IEEE

Viewing and Using the Style Area Pane in MS Word 2010 (PC)

Seeing the underlying style of each paragraph can be useful when proofing the formatting of your file. This view shows how to see the Style Area Pane. For best viewing Download the video.

Author Workshop

La Universidad del Rosario realizará el Taller de Autores “Springer Author Workshop”, evento académico ofrecido por la Editorial Springer y organizado por la Biblioteca y el Centro de Gestión del Conocimiento. Al evento están invitados los investigadores de la Universidad interesados en adquirir nuevas herramientas y destrezas a la hora de publicar un artículo científico. Lugar auditorio Mutis el 19-09-2014.

El surgimiento del Orden Internacional Moderno según Tierra y Mar de Carl Schmitt

El propósito de esta disertación es rescatar las interpretaciones de Tierra y Mar en lo que se refiere al surgimiento del Orden Internacional Moderno, con el objetivo de explicar la percepción de los acontecimientos por parte de Carl Schmitt y su aporte filosófico-jurídico a la comprensión de la historia y teoría de las Relaciones Internacionales. La particularidad de esta obra de Schmitt es su estilo profundo: la variedad y amplitud de temas que abarca, que contrasta con la brevedad del texto. El presente trabajo ha encontrado vacíos en el estudio de Tierra y Mar, así como interpretaciones distintas a las propuestas por el autor, en lo concerniente al surgimiento del Orden Internacional Moderno. La originalidad de la obra de Schmitt consiste en proponer, en realidad, dos órdenes internacionales distintos que surgen en el mundo moderno.

Anecdotisme = Anecdotismo = The narrative style = L'anecdotisme.

Guía para la visita de la quinta sala del Museo de Arte Moderno de Cataluña. Esta sala trata contenidos sobre el Anecdotismo. Mediante un mapa, esta guía orienta al visitante por los distintos espacios de la sala.

Dyslexia and learning style : apractitioner's handbook.

Manual, que sirve de puente entre la teoría y la práctica, para compartir algunas técnicas de enseñanza que han tenido éxito con estudiantes disléxicos. Estructurada en dos secciones, la primera examina la investigación más reciente en dos áreas claves: la experiencia con disléxicos y los principales estilos cognitivos y de aprendizaje para maximizar el éxito de los estudiantes más vulnerables. La segunda sección proporciona: formas de diagnosticar la dislexia, estilo de aprendizaje; técnicas para ayudar a los estudiantes a procesar y crear respuestas a la información en el plan de estudios; estrategias prácticas para ayudar a los profesores a adaptar materiales para satisfacer los diferentes estilos de aprendizaje encontrados en cada aula y actividades para ayudar a los estudiantes a desarrollar un enfoque más flexible para el aprendizaje.

Análisis evolutivo de la coordinación visomotora y sus relaciones con inteligencia, estilo cognitivo y atención = Developmental analysis of visualmotor coordination and its relationship to intelligence, cognitive style and attention.

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Psychometric properties of the Looming Maladaptive Style Questionnaire (LMSQ-R) in young Spanish adults

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The pedagogic discourse of the teacher-author

Monogr??fico con el t??tulo: " Formaci??n de profesores. Perspectivas de Brasil, Colombia, Espa??a y Portugal"