Hierarchical and Non-Hierarchical Linear and Non-Linear Clustering Methods to aoShakespeare-De Vere Authorship Question

Abstract

In my previous article entitled, "Hierarchical and Non-Hierarchical Linear and Non-Linear Clustering Methods to "Shakespeare Authorship Question" I used Mean Proximity, as a linear hierarchical clustering method and Principal Components Analysis, as a non-hierarchical linear clustering method, Self-Organizing Map U-matrix and Voronoi Map, as non-linear clustering methods to examine various works and plays assumed to have been written by Shakespeare and Sir Francis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe, John Fletcher, and Thomas Kyd to determine which of them wrote some of Shakespeare's disputed plays based on similarities in the use of function words, word-bi grams, and character-tri grams. The article showed that Shakespeare is not the author of all the disputed plays traditionally attributed to him according to the validated cluster analytic results and the stylistic criteria used.