<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Elizavette Torres</strong> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:elizavette.torres@yale.edu">elizavette.torres@yale.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 10:53 AM<br>Subject: [Statseminars] S&DS Talk, Joseph Dexter, 3/4, "Quantifying literary style and evolution", DL 220<br>To:  <<a href="mailto:Statseminars@mailman.yale.edu">Statseminars@mailman.yale.edu</a>>,  <<a href="mailto:sds-majors@mailman.yale.edu">sds-majors@mailman.yale.edu</a>><br></div><br><br><div lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class="m_-7025923109059630583WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><a href="https://statistics.yale.edu/" title="Department of Statistics and Data Science
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n of literature over long time scales.<u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:18.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Mallory;color:#222222"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:18.0pt;background:white"><a><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Mallory;color:red;text-decoration:none">3:45 p.m.</span></b></a><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Mallory;color:red">   Pre-talk tea Dunham Lab, Suite 222, Breakroom 228<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Mallory">For more details and upcoming events visit our website at </span><a href="http://statistics.yale.edu/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Mallory;color:#0563c1">http://statistics.yale.edu/</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Mallory"> .<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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