Distributions of surfers' paths through the World Wide Web: Empirical characterizations

World Wide Web

Volumn 2, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 29-45

  Pirolli, Peter L T ^a   Pitkow, James E ^a  

^a PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional Entropy; Levenshtein Distance; Page View; Session Time; User Agent

Indexed keywords

ENTROPY; HTTP; HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; WEB BROWSERS;

CONDITIONAL ENTROPY; CONDITIONAL PROBABILITIES; ENTROPY MEASUREMENT; LEVENSHTEIN DISTANCE; LONGEST PATH; PAGE VIEW; RECONSTRUCTION METHOD; SESSION TIME; USER AGENTS; USER PATH;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 85135029223     PISSN: 1386145X     EISSN: 15731413     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1019288403823     Document Type: Article

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