The general sympathy and concern for the murder of the lad by the base and infamous Richardson on the 22d Instant, will be sufficient reason for your...

The general sympathy and concern for the murder of the lad by the base and

infamous Richardson on the 22d Instant, will be sufficient reason for your notifying

the public that he will be buried from his fathers house in Frogg Lane,

opposite Liberty-Tree, on Monday next, when all the friends of liberty may have

an opportunity of paying their last respects to the remains of this little hero

and first martyr to the noble cause-whose manly spirit (after the accident

happened) appear'd in his discreet answers to his doctor, his thanks to the

clergymen who prayed with him, and parents, and while he underwent the

greatest distress of bodily pain; and with which he met the king of terrors.

These things, together with the several heroic pieces found in his pocket,

particularly Wolfe's Summit of human Glory, gives reason to think he had a

martial genius, and would have made a clever man.

                                                                                                           A MOURNER.

Summary Statistics of Word Length from Sample Passages by Various

Potential Authors of the Letter Signed A MOURNER

Tom                       John                       James                    Samuel                  Samuel                  Samuel

Sturdy                   Hancock                Otis                        Adams-1               Adams-2               Adams -1&2

Mean     4.08                       4.69                       4.58                       4.60                       4.52                       4.56

Median 4                             4                             4                             3                             4                             4

Mode    2                             3                             2                             2                             2                             2

SD          2.17                       2.60                       2.75                       2.89                       2.70                       2.80

Sample

Variance 4.70                     6.76                       7.54                       8.34                       7.30                       7.84

Range    13                          9                             14                          12                          16                          16

Min         1                           1                             1                             1                             1                             1

Max       14                          10                          15                          13                          17                          17

Sum       795                        568                        842                        810                        682                        1492

Count   195                        121                        184                        176                        151                        27

Answer the following questions for your Whole Person Assessment assignment. Be specific (to two decimal places) with your calculations. Justify your answers to questions 3 and 4 with at least a paragraph. You will create an Excel spreadsheet for #1-2, and #3-5 can be answered in a Word document.

1. Acting as a historical detective, generate a data set in Excel consisting of the length of each word used in the letter signed by A MOURNER. Be sure to disregard any text that uses proper names, numbers, abbreviations, or titles. (These have already been eliminated for you and are crossed out in the letter.) (ALREADY DONE)

2. Calculate the summary statistics (mean, median, mode, sample standard deviation, sample variance, range, minimum, maximum, sum, and word count) for the letter's word lengths in Excel. (ALREADY DONE)

3. Compare your findings with those of the known authors, and speculate about the identity of A MOURNER.

4. Compare the two Adams summaries. Discuss the viability of word-length analysis as a tool for resolving disputed documents.

5. What other information would be useful to identify A MOURNER?