A Bayesian model that predicts the impact of Web searching on decision making

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 57, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 873-880

  Lau, Annie Y S ^a   Coiera, Enrico W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; DECISION MAKING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONBIBLIOGRAPHIC RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; POPULATION STATISTICS; SEARCH ENGINES;

BAYESIAN MODEL; INFORMATION ACCESS; WEB SEARCH ENGINE;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 33646692933     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20377     Document Type: Article

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