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Peer reviewedShaw, W. M., Jr. – Information Processing and Management, 1993
Describes a study conducted on the cystic fibrosis (CF) database, a subset of MEDLINE, that investigated clustering structure and the effectiveness of cluster-based retrieval as a function of the exhaustivity of the uncontrolled subject descriptions. Results are compared to calculations for controlled descriptions based on Medical Subject Headings…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Records, Cluster Analysis, Cluster Grouping, Comparative Analysis
Peer reviewedYerkey, A. Neil – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1983
This study attempts to analyze descriptors taken from subject categories in ERIC thesaurus and used as search terms on CROSS database Bibliographic Retrieval Services. An expectation ratio was computed and cluster analysis was conducted to discover subject relationships among databases. A list of databases retrieved and 12 references are appended.…
Descriptors: Cluster Analysis, Cluster Grouping, Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis
