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Peer reviewedGelman, E.; Sichel, H. S. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1987
Argues that library book circulation is a binomial rather than a Poisson process, and that individual book popularities are continuous beta distributions. Three examples demonstrate the superiority of beta over negative binomial distribution, and it is suggested that a bivariate-binomial process would be helpful in predicting future book…
Descriptors: Library Circulation, Library Statistics, Mathematical Models, Operations Research
