SV: [Y-Indology] Textual Criticism and Cladistic techniques

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Harry Spier [sMTP:harryspier] skrev 7. mars 2002 00:01:

> This all took place 10 years ago. Have these techniques of cladistic

> analysis by computer proven useful in textual criticism. Have they ever

> been applied successfully or not to Indian manuscripts.

 

I wrote my PhD. experimenting with statistical methods in connection with

Sanskrit myself, and in this connection I tried to track down anything

written on the subject of Sanskrit and statistics. I did not find anything

like the case you mention here. But I am not surprised that the result of

the experiment was positive. Given the right kind of data, and enough of

them, that is what you expect.

 

Best regards,

 

Lars Martin

 

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