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Peer reviewedBurrell, Quentin L.; Fenton, Michael R. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1993
Discusses the generalized inverse Gaussian-Poisson (GIGP) process for informetric modeling. Negative binomial distribution is discussed, construction of the GIGP process is explained, zero-truncated GIGP is considered, and applications of the process with journals, library circulation statistics, and database index terms are described. (50…
Descriptors: Bibliometrics, Databases, Library Circulation, Library Statistics
