Editing Final Report/Thesis 2015 (section)

=====Increased Sample Size Testing=====
It was then decided that in order to increase our confidence in the calculated significance level, we would increase the sample size for our English base text from ''Project Gutenberg'' to not only large enough such that each letter appeared at least once, but to concatenate 20 English novels from the time before the Somerton Man's death to be used as our base English Corpus (See Appendix D).  It was first confirmed whether this would have an affect on the chi-squared values against the code variants when compared to other languages.  We could then also increase our English benchmark sample size by taking 100 44 letter samples from this corpus using code written in Python, and performing the same testing as performed on our smaller English base text.  The results from this testing can be seen in Figure 41.

Increasing the sample size of the English base text had very little effect on the graphs produced in the Initial Validation, European Language Comparison and so these graphs have been excluded.  A closer look at the changes to the chi-squared and ''p-values'' for the Somerton Man code variants caused by this increased sample size can be seen through comparing Figures 40 and 41.  Increasing the number of 44 letter English samples from 20 to 100 however, did have an effect on the chi-squared value and ''p-value'' calculated to be used as our significance level, the results of which can be seen in Figure 41.  This increase in number of samples had very little effect on the graph of the ''Universal Declaration of Human Rights'' significance level calculation, and so this has also been omitted.