The Geometric and the Bradford Distributions: A Comparison

Both the geometric and the Bradford probability distributions are used to describe collections of items of interest in information science. Each unit item has a productivity, an integer n measuring the amount of use of the item. The cumulative fraction Fn of items with productivity equal to n or gre...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Morse, Philip M., 1903-
Format: Working Paper
Language:en_US
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Operations Research Center 2004
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/5141