IJSRST207330 |Accepted : 10 April 2020 | Published : 30 April 2020 | March-April-2020 [ 7 (2) : 574-590] © 2020 | International Journal of Scientific Research in Science and Technology IJSRST | Volume 7 | Issue 2 | Print ISSN: 2395-6011 | Online ISSN: 2395-602X DOI :https://doi.org/10.32628/IJSRST 574 Use of Statistical tools for Style by Marker Word Dr. Ashok Y. Tayade Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Dr. B. A. M. University, Aurangabad-431004, Maharashtra State, India ABSTRACT In this artical our contribution is towards statistical stylistics, a discipline established in the recent years. We have analysed samples from the book entitled, „Glimpses of World History‟ (1931) by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. Our attempt is to study author‟s writing style with the help of marker words. A method of selecting statistical model for the literary style has been described, and different methods of estimation of parameters appearing in the models have been discussed. Keywords :Marker Words, Statistical models, Kolmogoroff-Smirnoff test, Chi-square test. I. INTRODUCTION An author has his / her own style of writing. A person who has examined some work of an author is able to describe author‟s style as reflected in features of his writing. These features which do not depend on the subject matter of writing but on the habit and personality of author are parts of author‟s style. Moreover these features persist from one work of an author to his / her another work. A statistical finds in study of texts, an interesting material to use for testing and refining the distributional formulae. The statistical investigations of texts are most directly concerned with the description and explanation of the features inherent in the text, their organization and variability. We have formulated a statistical model which reflects some of the features inherent in an author‟s style. This statistical model is employed to describe style. II. METHODS AND MATERIAL 2.1 Marker words Mosteller and Wallace (1964) have considered the problem of stylistics from many view points. In their book they have pointed out the existence of marker words, which were brought to their noticed by Douglass Adair. Generally marker words for English Language, Deway (1923) collected near about one lakh words. The percentages in descending order of frequencies of the first few words noted by Deway (1923) are as folloes: TABLE NO: 2.1.1 Deway‟s Table Word Deway‟sValue(%) the 7.3 of 4.9 and 3.3 to 2.9 a 2.1 in 2.1