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Peer reviewedPao, Miranda Lee; McCreery, Laurie – Information Processing and Management, 1986
A rudimentary description of Markov Chains is presented in order to introduce its use to describe and to predict authors' movements among subareas of the discipline of ethnomusicology. Other possible applications are suggested. (Author)
Descriptors: Authors, Models, Predictive Measurement, Probability
Peer reviewedSichel, H. S. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1985
The Generalized Inverse Gaussian-Poisson Distribution is suggested as an all-embracing mathematical model for bibliometric frequency distributions. Twelve examples are given which show that the new model cannot be rejected by virtue of an objective chi-squared test. A mathematical appendix and 20 references are included. (Author/EJS)
Descriptors: Authors, Citations (References), Mathematical Models, Productivity
