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An investigation of Morton's method to distinguish Elizabethan playwrights

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Wilfrid Smith, a BSc with first class honours in electrical and electronic engineering from the Queen's University of Belfast and a PhD in Control Theory, has been a lecturer in mathematics and computing and is presently a senior lecturer in computing at the University of Ulster.

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Smith, M.W.A. An investigation of Morton's method to distinguish Elizabethan playwrights. Comput Hum 19, 3–21 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02259614

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