Information using likeness measures

Journal of the American Society for Information Science

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 882-892

  Frické, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; SIGNAL THEORY;

LIKENESS MEASURES; VERISIMILITUDE THEORY;

INFORMATION THEORY;

EID: 0031258731     PISSN: 00028231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(199710)48:10<882::AID-ASI4>3.0.CO;2-Y     Document Type: Article

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