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Re:Visualizing Tolkien by shardling on Thursday October 04, 2012 @02:59PM (#4613768)
But is there a good way to boil that down to a single metric? (i.e., can we parametrize these curves with a single value?)
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Re:Visualizing Tolkien by andreasvc on Thursday October 04, 2012 @04:06PM (#4614105)
I wouldn't know off the top of my head, but the concept was introduced by Harold Baayen. There are free PDFs online of his with lots of interesting quantitative techniques.
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