In reply to Quentin.

He also led one of the first research projects that used Bayesian analysis to solve a big (not a classroom exercise) research problem: Who wrote the disputed Federalist Papers, James Madison or Alexander Hamilton? The analysis of Mosteller and Wallace, which used frequency of words in the disputed articles, was a tour de force of (mostly hand) computations in the days before powerful computers were common. The conclusion was that Madison wrote all 12 of the disputed papers.