Untangling Herdan's law and Heaps' Law: Mathematical and informetric arguments

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 702-709

  Egghe, Leo ^a,b  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SAMPLING; SEMANTICS; TERMINOLOGY;

HERDAN'S LAW; INFORMETRIC ARGUMENTS; RANDOM SAMPLING;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 33947408736     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20524     Document Type: Article

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