Editing Final Report/Thesis 2015 (section)

====Evaluation and Justification====
The original proposal suggested that the group repeat the statistical analysis from the 2013 group and use benchmark texts to statistically assess the validity of the method as well as the ''Universal Declaration of Human Rights'' as a base text. The group was then to extend the analysis by calculating the ''p-values'' for the Somerton Man code when compared to the most common European languages and perform ''hypothesis testing'' based on the results. The group was also to use benchmark texts to test the statistical accuracy of the method as well as the validity of the ''Universal Declaration of Human Rights'' as a base text. The 2015 group’s statistical analysis had achieved almost all of its proposed goals. A slight diverge from the initially proposed method was decided upon once it was found that ''p-values'' useful for comparison or ''hypothesis testing'' were unable to be obtained using any attempted statistical method. Instead, the texts were ranked using their calculated chi-squared value. All assumptions outlined in the proposal were followed, with the addition of the modification of the count and frequency data to account for the small sample size of the base text.

Previous results using the ''Universal Declaration of Human rights'' as a base text were confirmed when using the assumption to adjust letters with count 0 to 1.  These were not consistent when using the second assumption to adjust the letters with frequency 0 to 0.0001.  These inconclusive results left more to be desired from the analysis and the validity of ''Universal Declaration of Human Rights'' as a base text was found to be questionable due to its limited sample size.  English was found to have the lowest chi-squared value for a number of the calculations, meaning that the Somerton Man code is most likely to be formed from the English language, however since a reasonable ''p-value'' for any language could not be obtained, there was still a potential for reanalysis.