Probing the Statistical Properties of Unknown Texts: Application to the Voynich Manuscript
Figure 2
Distribution of measurements for the New Testament compared with the measurement obtained for VMS (dotted line).
The measurements are (a) (intermittency of the most frequent words); (b) (assortativity) and (c) (average shortest path length). While in (a) VMS is not compatible with natural languages, in (b) and (c) the compatibility was verified since .