This brief paper gives an example of statistical stylistic experimentation and argues for more informed measures of variation and choice and more informed measures of readership analysis to be able to posit dimensions of textual variation usefully.
Published in Style and Meaning in Language, Art, Music, and Design: Papers from the AAAI Fall Symposium. Eds. Shlomo Argamon, Shlomo Dubnov, and Julie Jupp. AAAI Technical Report Series FS-04-08. Menlo Park: AAAI Press,ISBN 978-1-57735-218-1