Spectral methods for detecting periodicity in library circulation data: A case study

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 393-403

  Decroos, Francis ^a   Dierckens, Kris ^a   Pollet, Vincent ^a   Rousseau, Ronald ^a   Tassignon, Hugo ^a   Verweyen, Koen ^a  

^a Katholieke Hogeschool Brugge Oostende   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

LIBRARY CIRCULATION DATA; SOFTWARE PACKAGE MATLAB; SPECTRAL METHODS;

INFORMATION SCIENCE;

EID: 0031143441     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4573(96)00071-4     Document Type: Article

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