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Forensic Authorship Analysis

v1.2.0 · Feb 28, 2026 · GPL (>= 2)

Description

Carry out comparative authorship analysis of disputed and undisputed texts within the Likelihood Ratio Framework for expressing evidence in forensic science. This package contains implementations of well-known algorithms for comparative authorship analysis, such as Smith and Aldridge's (2011) Cosine Delta <doi:10.1080/09296174.2011.533591> or Koppel and Winter's (2014) Impostors Method <doi:10.1002/asi.22954>, as well as functions to measure their performance and to calibrate their outputs into Log-Likelihood Ratios.

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Dependencies Reverse dependencies quanteda caret dplyr fdrtool ggplot2 kgrams pbapply pROC proxy quanteda.textstats spacyr stringr idiolect

Version History

new 1.2.0 Mar 10, 2026
updated 1.2.0 ← 1.1.1 diff Feb 27, 2026
updated 1.1.1 ← 1.0.1 diff Dec 2, 2025
new 1.0.1 Aug 27, 2024