The methods for textual statistics brought together in this work have grown out of the meeting of several disciplines, principally: text analysis, linguistics, discourse analysis, statistics, computer science and socioeconomic survey analysis. Our endeavor derives from ongoing work in two areas: an activity with various names (lexical statistics, quantitative linguistics, etc.) that for the past
... [Show full abstract] fifty years has linked statistical methods to text analysis, and multivariate statistics, one of the main currents of modern statistics.