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

Table 7

Word-length distribution of the sample texts from LCMC.

Sample text	Distribution model		R^2
LCMC-K02	Dacey-negative binomial	0.0284	0.9999
LCMC-K04	Extended positive Poisson	0.1942	1.0000
LCMC-K06	Poisson	0.0785	0.9990
	Hyper-Poisson	0.0854	0.9999
	Jackson–Nickols	0.6306	1.0000
	Extended logarithmic	0.7486	1.0000
	Dacey–Poisson	0.0731	0.9998
	Shenton–Skees geometric	0.2919	1.0000
LCMC-K10	Extended positive Poisson	0.4460	1.0000