Modelling Documents with Multiple Poisson Distributions.

Margulis, Eugene L.

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ERIC Number: EJ462836

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Publication Date: 1993

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Modelling Documents with Multiple Poisson Distributions.

Margulis, Eugene L.

Information Processing and Management, v29 n2 p215-27 Mar-Apr 1993

Reports on the validity of the Multiple Poisson (nP) model of word distribution in full-text document collections. A practical algorithm for determining whether a certain word is distributed according to an nP distribution and the results of a test of this algorithm in three different document collections are described. (14 references) (KRN)

Descriptors: Algorithms, Full Text Databases, Graphs, Information Retrieval, Mathematical Models, Statistical Analysis

Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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