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ERIC Number: EJ355780
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1987
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Class Dispersion between the Library of Congress Classification and the Dewey Decimal Classification.
O'Neill, Edward T.; And Others
Journal of the American Society for Information Science, v38 n3 p197-205 May 1987
Two statistical measures are used to compare the Library of Congress and Dewey Decimal Classification systems by applying them to the library science portions of the two systems using a database drawn from MARC records. It is concluded that the measures characterize two different properties of dispersion. (Author/EM)
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Classification, Databases, Dewey Decimal Classification, Library Catalogs, Library of Congress Classification, Library Science, Online Catalogs, Online Searching, Statistical Distributions
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Audience: Researchers
Language: English
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