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Federalist Papers

Definition

A collection of 85 essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay under the pseudonym 'Publius' in 1787-1788, advocating for ratification of the U.S. Constitution. Twelve papers were disputed between Hamilton and Madison, making them the canonical test set for stylometry.

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Daubert standard
The US federal evidentiary standard (Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, 1993) requiring that expert testimony be based on scientifically valid methods with...
Literary attribution
The scholarly practice of assigning an anonymous or disputed text to a specific author, typically in a historical context. Differs from forensic...
Mosteller-Wallace study
The 1964 statistical analysis by Frederick Mosteller and David Wallace that attributed all twelve disputed Federalist Papers to Madison using function-word frequency...
Pseudonymous attribution
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