The predicted authors for the 13 disputed Federalist Papers.

These results use 75 function words for both methods, which yields the best accuracy. The MDA results are selected using a simplistic approach where the authors with lowest distances (highlighted in bold in Table 6), are selected. However, greater certainty is achieved if the other contending authors have high distances from the text being classified. The cases where both remaining authors have distances greater than or approximately equal to the longest distance (LD) of a known text, are indicated with an asterisk. Thus entries with asterisks have a high degree of certainty, and those without asterisks are less certain and possibly may have resulted from collaboration with the next nearest author.