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Peer reviewedRousseau, Ronald; Rousseau, Sandra – Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science, 1993
Reviews informetric, or bibliometric, distributions, including Lotka's, rank frequency distributions, Zipf functions, Mandelbrot functions, Leimkuhler functions, and Bradford's formulations. An example of the use of these techniques to analyze song texts of Thomas Dolby is given, and results are reported that show a fit with a Leimkuhler function.…
Descriptors: Bibliometrics, Mathematical Formulas, Songs, Statistical Distributions
Peer reviewedTsay, Ming-Yueh – Journal of Documentation, 1999
Describes a study conducted in a Taiwan hospital library that explored the in-house use age distribution of journals, their citation age distribution, and the difference between them. Discusses use of the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, which showed that the use age distribution does not fit the citation age distribution. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Citations (References), Foreign Countries, Hospital Libraries, Scholarly Journals
Peer reviewedJansen, Bernard J.; Spink, Amanda; Saracevic, Tefko – Information Processing & Management, 2000
Describes a study that analyzed transaction logs of users of Excite, an Internet search service. Highlights include data on sessions (changes in queries, number of pages viewed, and relevance feedback), queries (number of search terms and the use of logic and modifiers), and terms (rank/frequency distribution); user characteristics; and failure…
Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Relevance (Information Retrieval), Search Strategies, Statistical Distributions
Download full textPlatten, Marvin R.; Barker, Bruce O. – 1987
The Texas Interactive Instructional Network (TI-IN), a private satellite system that provides one-way video and two-way audio communication, was used for a two-year pilot project which was conducted to determine if satellite instruction could be used successfully to share educational resources among institutions. Models of Teaching, a graduate…
Descriptors: Communications Satellites, Course Content, Distance Education, Education Majors
Rose, Terry L.; And Others – 1987
This report provides statistics on employment, evaluation, and training practices and procedures of American public school substitute teachers. A questionnaire was mailed to the directors of substitute teachers in 401 randomly selected school districts. Usable information was returned by 259 school systems (64.6 percent) in 49 states and the…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Occupational Information, Public Schools
