Editing Final Report/Thesis 2015 (section)

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Before commencing statistical calculations, a number of initial assumptions were made for this task. One assumption was that the language used as the basis for the code is a European Language. This assumption was made based on the European appearance of the Somerton Man, results from previous groups concluding that the most likely language is English (see Previous Studies/Related Work section), and advice from Professor Abbott. Another assumption that was made is that the code is an ''initialism'', meaning that it is made up of letters that represent the first letters of an ordered series of words. This assumption has also been made based on conclusions made by previous groups (see Previous Studies/Related Work section) and advice from Professor Abbott. Due to this assumption, only the first letters of words in each language in the base text were to be considered for analysis, and not every letter.  Further assumptions were the inclusion of all accented letters in base texts and all combinations of ambiguous letters in the code. This assumption entailed the use of versions of the code including 6Ms, 4Ms and 2Ws, and the code as it appeared in the original police report from 1949<ref>L. Griffith and P. Varsos. (2013). Semester B Final Report 2013 – Cipher Cracking [online]. Available: https://www.eleceng.adelaide.edu.au/personal/dabbott/wiki/index.php/Semester_B_Final_Report_2013_-_Cipher_cracking</ref>.  These assumptions were made to increase the robustness of the analysis. A final assumption that was made was the choice not to include the crossed out line of letters in the code. This was made since from observation, one can see that this line is very similar to the third line and is most likely to be a mistake.