Comparing Two Distribution Models of Paul's Literary Techniques
Poisson Versus Negative Binomial
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4314482 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas Mccauley (0009-0002-6261-9119), P Robertson (0000-0002-9422-8916, University of New Hampshire, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 564 |
| Publication date | 2025-04-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/rel16050564 |
| OpenAlex | W4410008168 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
This article explores how literary features are statistically distributed in the Christian apostle Paul's letters. While several decades of occasional research have applied statistics to Paul's letters, most if not all previous such approaches have either assumed that Paul's language follows a normal distribution or ignored the question of statistical distribution entirely. The nature of feature distribution-be the features vocabulary words or second-order features chosen by the analyst-is a crucial component of any statistical analysis, and the dearth of work in this area therefore forms a major hole in mathematical approaches to Paul's letters. This paper addresses this hole in scholarship by comparing two possible models for Paul's various literary techniques: the Poisson distribution versus the negative binomial distribution
Beta-binomial distribution · Binomial distribution · Econometrics · Mathematical analysis · Negative binomial distribution · Negative multinomial distribution · Poisson binomial distribution · Poisson distribution · Statistics · Advanced Combinatorial Mathematics · Advanced Mathematical Identities · Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models · Mathematics
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |