A new explanation of the negative binomial law and the Poisson law with regard to library journal circulation data

Journal of Information Science

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 89-93

  Lafouge, Thierry ^a,b   Guinet, Eric ^a  

^a Recodoc   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

NEGATIVE BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

PUBLISHING;

EID: 0032784030     PISSN: 01655515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/016555159902500110     Document Type: Article

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