A New Unified Probabilistic Model

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 471-487

  Bodoff, David ^a   Robertson, Stephen ^b  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; QUERY LANGUAGES; SET THEORY;

PROBABILISTIC MODELS; PROBABILITY ESTIMATES;

PROBABILISTIC LOGICS;

EID: 1842781062     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.10398     Document Type: Review

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