Relations between the continuous and the discrete Lotka power function

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 664-668

  Egghe, L ^a,b  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; GRAPH THEORY; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMBER THEORY; PROBLEM SOLVING; SET THEORY;

CONTINUOUS VARIABLES; ECONOMETRICS; INFOMETRICS; LOTKA POWER FUNCTIONS;

FUNCTIONS;

EID: 19944363882     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20157     Document Type: Article

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