A Quantitative Study on Dream of the Red Chamber: Word-Length Distribution and Authorship Attribution

Table 3

Using the Altmann-Fitter to fit the static word-length distribution data of the three parts of DRC.

DM	Part I				Part II				Part III
	X^2	C	DF	R^2	X^2	C	DF	R^2	X^2	C	DF	R^2
A	283.62	0.0076	3	0.9983	226.77	0.0064	3	0.9986	273.85	0.0080	3	0.9983
B	128.70	0.0035	2	0.9997	78.32	0.0022	2	0.9998	136.41	0.0040	2	0.9997
C	119.37	0.0032	3	0.9999	70.65	0.0020	3	0.9999	128.02	0.0038	3	0.9999
D	132.13	0.0036	2	0.9996	82.18	0.0023	2	0.9997	139.57	0.0041	2	0.9996
E	278.09	0.0075	3	0.9984	216.25	0.0061	3	0.9987	271.35	0.0080	3	0.9984
F	153.90	0.0042	2	0.9999	122.12	0.0035	2	0.9998	120.13	0.0035	2	0.9999
G	164.54	0.0044	2	0.9991	95.62	0.0027	2	0.9995	162.67	0.0048	2	0.9992
H	130.28	0.0035	1	0.9998	78.72	0.0022	1	0.9999	138.47	0.0041	1	0.9998

Note. DM refers to the distribution model; A stands for positive Cohen–-Poisson (α, a); B stands for positive Cohen-negative binomial (k, p, a); C stands for extended logarithmic (θ, α); D stands for extended positive-negative binomial (k, p, a fixed); E stands for Shenton–Skees geometric (p, a); F stands for Dacey-negative binomial (k, p, a); G stands for Shenton–Skees logarithmic (a, b, θ); H stands for right truncated modified Zipf–Alekseev (a, b; n = x-max, α fixed).