Clinical diagnoses following Zipf's law

Fractals

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 341-351

  Tachimori, Yutaka ^a   Tahara, Takashi ^b  

^a Department of Anesthesiology   (Japan)

^b NIHON FUKUSHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Clinical Diagnosis; Complex System; Fractal; Medical Structure; Zipf's Law

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036759559     PISSN: 0218348X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218348X02001117     Document Type: Article

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