The Simple Scalability of Documents.

Rorvig, Mark E.

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Publication Date: 1990

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The Simple Scalability of Documents.

Rorvig, Mark E.

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, v41 n8 p590-98 Dec 1990

Reports on a test of the applicability of the theory of General Scalability to documents in terms of transitivity, substitutability, and independence. Implications for the construction of test collections in information retrieval research are examined. (24 references) (EAM)

Descriptors: Goodness of Fit, Information Retrieval, Information Theory, Least Squares Statistics, Mathematical Models, Probability, Relevance (Information Retrieval)

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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