# Does Burrows' Delta really confirm that Rowling and Galbraith are the same author?

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.10301 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2407.10301/

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- First posted on arXiv 14 Jul 2024.

## Abstract (arXiv)

The stylo package includes a frequency table that can be used to calculate distances between texts and thus independently solve the problem of attribution of The Cuckoo's Calling, a novel that J.K. Rowling said she wrote. However, the set of texts for this table is very vulnerable to criticism. The authors there are not modern, they wrote in a different genre. I set out to test the performance of the method on texts that are more relevant to the research question.