A study on statistical methods used in six journals of library and information science

Online Information Review

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 416-434

  Zhang, Jin ^a   Zhao, Yuehua ^a   Wang, Yanyan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Journal; Methodology; Quantitative research; Statistical method

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE (ANOVA); INFORMATION SCIENCE; STATISTICS;

CONTENT ANALYSIS METHOD; JOURNAL; LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE; METHODOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS METHODS; STATISTICAL METHODOLOGIES;

STATISTICAL METHODS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CONTENT ANALYSIS; INFORMATION SCIENCE; STUDENT T TEST; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84971323581     PISSN: 14684527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/OIR-07-2015-0247     Document Type: Article

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