Determining the Interdependence of Historical Astronomical Tables
判定历史天文表之间的依赖关系
The authorship of portions of some ancient and medieval astronomical manuscripts is a current historical issue. This article develops a statistical method for determining whether or not a link exists between a pair of mathematically defined historical astronomical tables. The existence or nonexistence of such links aids the analysis of the origins of these documents. Nonparametric methods are used to determine whether traces of the errors in one table may be found in the…