Cashill's expert team includes university professors from the U.S. and England in the statistical analysis of authorship, systems engineers, writers and Ph.D. literary analysts. Most, particularly professors at public universities, asked that their names not be revealed.
Cashill cautions that the data-driven computer analysis is not foolproof, but all of the four independent tests that have been completed point to the same conclusion, that Ayers was heavily involved in the writing of "Dreams."
One analyst, who used his own proprietary software, wrote to Cashill that there is a "strong likelihood" that the author of "Fugitive Days," Ayers' own memoir, ghost-wrote "Dreams From My Father" using recordings of dialog.
The analyst said it's also possible Ayers served as a "book doctor," drastically rewriting work Obama already had done.
A systems engineer told Cashill, "The statistical style analysis performed by our research team suggests that the writing style of "Dreams From My Father" is significantly more similar to the style observed in "Fugitive Days" than to the style found in other works by Barack Obama such as "Audacity of Hope."
Another analyst writes, "We strongly think this bears immediate investigation by the academic community at large as the initial data presented is highly suggestive that these two documents share large portions of authorship."
Cashill has released one of the statistical summaries, in pdf format.
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Read Cashill's three-part series on Obama's "Dreams":
Part 1, "Bill Ayers' motive for penning memoir"
Part 2, "Deconstructing the text"