Aanother statistical take on Voynichese

[Mauro]

I compared some basic statistics of four texts:

- The original VMS (transcription RF1a-n with dubious characters removed)
- A pseudo-Voynich text made with a program I wrote some time ago (Asemic_LOOP), generated with an order-1 Markov chain, 1201 states, 8115 transitions
- The file posted by nablator in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., kostrubaty's generator, order-3 Markov chain, ?? states, ?? transitions
- The output of Timm Torsten's generator (on github), copy-and-modify mechanism

These are the results (tables ordered by distance from the original VMS):


Monograms/bigrams statistics. Min possible value = 0, max possible value = sqrt(2) =~ 1.414
   


Statistics of following/preceding character. Min possible value = 0, max possible value = long to explain, above 3
   



Statistics of words distribution (vocabulary, Zipf's law and words length). Min possible value = 0, max possible value = sqrt(2)
   


kostrubaty's generator does a reasonably good job in emulating Voynichese, sitting +- midway between my Asemic_LOOP and Timm Torsten's copy&modify. If you want I can also post about entropies and hapax legomena, but it'll take me some time to format the output.