Old world vs. New world: Evolution of Nobel prize shares

INFOR

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 41-49

  Jank, Wolfgang ^a   Golden, Bruce L ^a   Zantek, Paul F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Curve fitting; Nobel Prizes; Smoothing splines

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CURVE FITTING; FORECASTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION; NOBEL PRIZES; SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENTS; SMOOTHING SPLINES;

PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS;

EID: 16244420694     PISSN: 03155986     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03155986.2005.11732714     Document Type: Article

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