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Bensman, Stephen J. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 2000
This speculative historiographic essay attempts to fix the present position of library and information science within the context of the probabilistic revolution that has been encompassing all of science. Comprises a guide to statistical research in library and information science, discussing skewed distributions, biostatistics, stochastic models,…
Descriptors: Information Science, Probability, Statistical Distributions