Production and use of information. Characterization of informetric distributions using effort function and density function: Exponential informetric process

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1387-1394

  Lafouge, Thierry ^a   Prime Claverie, Camille ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Effort function; Entropy; Exponential process

Indexed keywords

BIBLIOGRAPHIES; CHARACTERIZATION; ENTROPY; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES; EFFORT FUNCTION; EXPONENTIAL PROCESS; STATISTICAL THEORY;

DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 22944468160     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2005.03.004     Document Type: Article

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