An Exact Formulation of Bradford's Law.

Leimkuhler, Ferdinand F.

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Publication Date: 1980-Dec

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An Exact Formulation of Bradford's Law.

Leimkuhler, Ferdinand F.

Journal of Documentation, v36 n4 p285-92 Dec 1980

Demonstrates, with an example, a relatively simple method for fitting Bradford's law to empirical data to estimate the number of journals and articles in a subject collection. An exact discrete formulation illustrates Bradford's law as a special case of the Zipf-Mandlebrot "rank frequency" law. (Author/RAA)

Descriptors: Bibliographies, Citations (References), Evaluation, Library Collections, Measurement Techniques, Models, Periodicals, Relevance (Information Retrieval), Statistical Distributions

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