Deriving and verifying statistical distribution of a hyperlink-based Web page quality metric

Data and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 291-315

  Dhyani, Devanshu ^a   Bhowmick, Sourav S ^a   Ng, Wee Keong ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

PageRank; Quality metrics; Statistical distribution; Web measurement

Indexed keywords

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; STATISTICAL METHODS; WEBSITES;

STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0038486907     PISSN: 0169023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-023X(03)00034-X     Document Type: Article

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