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 # handwriterRF
 
 
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 HandwriterRF is designed to assist forensic document examiners by
 performing a statistical analysis on two handwriting samples. One or
 both of the samples could be from unknown writers. Two hypotheses are
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 ```{r setup, include=FALSE}
 knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = TRUE)
 ```