Links between information construction and information gain. Entropy and bibliometric distributions

Journal of Information Science

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 39-49

  Lafouge, Thierry ^a   Michel, Christine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BIBLIOMETRIC DISTRIBUTION; INFORMATION CONSTRUCTION; INFORMATION GAIN;

INFORMATION SCIENCE;

EID: 0035085879     PISSN: 01655515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/016555150102700105     Document Type: Article

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