Bradford's Law and Fuzzy Sets: Statistical Implications for Library Analyses

Bradford, S.C. "Sources of Information on Specific Subjects ". Engineering 137: 85-86 (1934).

Ibid. A full treatment of the various formulations of Bradford's Law is outside the scope of this paper.

Kosko, B. Fuzzy Thinking: The New Science of Fuzzy Logic. London : Flamingo, 1994, p. 6.

Bradford, S.C. "Some General Principles of a Bibliographical Classification Scheme, with Application to the Universal Decimal Classification ". Proceedings of the British Society for International Bibliography 6 (3): 57-69 (1944).

Zadeh, L.A. "Fuzzy Sets". Information and Control 8 (3): 338-353 (1965).

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Pearson, K. The Grammar of Science. 3rd ed., rev. and enl. London: A. and C. Black, 1911. Pt. 1, p. 165.

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Ibid., p. 154.

Ibid., pp. 156-157.

Ibid, p. 165.

Ibid, p. 170.

Ibid., p. 166.

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Barnett, V. and T. Lewis. Outliers in Statistical Data . 3rd ed. Chichester: J. Wiley, 1995, p. 7. A short, general review of outliers and the procedures for handling them is: Barnett, V. "The Study of Outliers: Purpose and Model ". Applied Statistics 27 (3): 242-250 (1978).

Barnett and Lewis (1995), op cit., p. 7.

Ibid., pp. 43-49.

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