Production and use of information. Characterization of informetric distributions using effort function and density function: Exponential informetric process
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Statistical regularities observed in the production or use of information have been studied for a long time. In this article we define an exponential informetric process to formalize these stochastic process. It is defined by combining an effort function with a density function. Without using the powerful results of Price on the cumulative advantages process this characterization clarifies the principle of least effort. Some links between statistical theory of information and some informetric distributions are enhanced.
论文关键词:Effort function,Exponential process,Entropy
论文评审过程:Received 27 September 2004, Accepted 3 March 2005, Available online 25 July 2005.
论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2005.03.004