Statistics for measuring the efficiency of electronic information retrieval

Journal of the American Society for Information Science

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 159-166

  Lang, William Steve ^a   Grigsby, Mary ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; ONLINE SEARCHING; STATISTICS;

ELECTRONIC INFORMATION SEARCHING EFFICIENCY; TETRACHORIC CORRELATION;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 0030081382     PISSN: 00028231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(199602)47:2<159::AID-ASI7>3.0.CO;2-Y     Document Type: Article

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