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Peer reviewedBurrell, Quentin L.; Fenton, Michael R. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1994
Proposes and explains a modification of the mixed Poisson model for library circulations which takes into account the periods when a book is out on loan and therefore unavailable for borrowing. Highlights include frequency of circulation distributions; negative binomial distribution; and examples of the model at two universities. (Contains 34…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Library Circulation, Library Statistics
