Data from Mosteller & Wallace (1984) investigating the use of certain
keywords (‘may’ in this data set) to identify the author of 12
disputed ‘Federalist Papers’ by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay
and James Madison.
Usage
data("Federalist")
Arguments
Format
A 1-way table giving the number of occurrences of ‘may’ in 262
blocks of text. The variable and its levels are
No
Name
Levels
1
nMay
0, 1, ..., 6
References
F. Mosteller & D. L. Wallace (1984),
Applied Bayesian and Classical Inference: The Case of the
Federalist Papers.
Springer-Verlag, New York, NY.
M. Friendly (2000),
Visualizing Categorical Data.
SAS Institute, Cary, NC.