Robust methodologies for modeling web click distributions

16th International World Wide Web Conference, WWW2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 511-520

  Ali, Kamal ^a   Scarr, Mark ^a  

^a YAHOO INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Distribution fitting

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ONLINE SEARCHING; ROBOTICS; STATISTICAL METHODS; WEBSITES;

DISTRIBUTION FITTING; MANDELBROT MIXTURE DISTRIBUTION; ROBOT TRAFFIC;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 35348820624     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1242572.1242642     Document Type: Conference Paper

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