Distinguishing Shakespeare from Fletcher through Function Words

[...] there have been controversies among the advocates of stylometry themselves regarding the best statistical methods to use or the best textual features to measure. [...] I only selected plays that have one authoritative source text, since otherwise I would have to bring together readings from several texts to form a composite version (in other words, become an editor).\n Classification results that appear to be strongly affected by a rate for one infrequent marker are thus less trustworthy than a result due to one or more frequent markers such as all, the, of, and in.