Using the Mann-Whitney test on informetric data

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 798-801

  Huber, John C ^a   Wagner Döbler, Roland ^b  

^a Inst for Invention and Innovation   (United States)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PUBLISHING; SAMPLED DATA CONTROL SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL TESTS;

SCIENTOMETRICS;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 0038274848     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.10252     Document Type: Review

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