Statistical analysis of Early Buddhist Texts

[stephen]

@Snowbird

Even words is a bit dodgy. With so many compound words and the synthetic nature of Pali, I wonder what useful information you hope to glean from word counts

Yes, I believe this was all discussed in a previous thread.

How many words are each of the first 4 Nikayas?

I am writing up some of my quantitative arguments, focusing on the first 4 Nikayas, can someone tell me how many words in Pali, not counting implied expansions, jsut what is actually there, each of the 4 N have? or a way to easily load a file and do a word count? there where some zip files or pdfs? shared here a while back I think??