A new model that generates Lotka's Law

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 209-219

  Huber, John C ^a  

^a Inst for Invention and Innovation   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICAL METHODS;

STATISTICAL TOOLS;

INFORMATION SCIENCE;

EID: 0036470736     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.10025     Document Type: Article

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