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Haas, David F.; Kraft, Donald H. – Information Processing and Management, 1984
This paper examines representative research in information science and compares its designs to an abstract ideal of the experimental research design. Threats to validity of conclusions are highlighted, including history, maturation, testing, instrumentation, statistical regression, selection biases, experimental mortality, and selection-maturation…
Descriptors: Information Science, Models, Research Design, Research Methodology

Shaw, W. M., Jr. – Information Processing and Management, 1986
Empirical significance of document partitions is investigated as a function of index term-weight and similarity thresholds. Results show the same empirically preferred partitions can be detected by two independent strategies: an analysis of cluster-based retrieval analysis and an analysis of regularities in the underlying structure of the document…
Descriptors: Automatic Indexing, Graphs, Information Retrieval, Relevance (Information Retrieval)