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On  7 Feb 97 at 16:36, Ronald L. Minton wrote:

> Is anyone familiar with an article in Statistical Science (Aug 94) or in 
> Bible Review (Oct 95) or The Journal of the Royal Statistical Society 
> 152:1, 1988)?  I have received claims that amazing statistical sequences 
> in the Hebrew proves (even supernaturally so) the accuracy of the Masoretic 
> text and/or certain translations.

I have read the Bible Review article and it seems an intelligent 
summary of what was done along with a good layman's discussion of 
some of the statistical issues.    Of course, all statistics can do, 
in effect,  is make statements on the likelihood that a particular 
result could be obtained by pure chance.  What conclusions one draws 
from those statistical results  are beyond the realm of statistics.


Lewis Reich
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