The Identification of Exemplar Change in the Wife of Bath's Prologue Using the Maximum Chi-Squared Method

Author / Editor
Windram, Heather F., Christopher J. Howe, and Matthew Spencer.

Title
The Identification of Exemplar Change in the Wife of Bath's Prologue Using the Maximum Chi-Squared Method

Published
Literary and Linguistic Computuing 20 (2005): 189-204

Description
Uses a statistical technique derived from DNA research to reexamine the possibility of examplar changes in the copying of WBP. Results agree with earlier studies, indicating the usefulness of this method.

Contributor
Howe, Christopher J.
Spencer, Matthew.

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies.
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.