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Volume 28, Issue 2
1 February 1972
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Review Article| February 01 1972

THE AMBIGUITY OF BRADFORD'S LAW Available to Purchase

ELIZABETH A. WILKINSON
ELIZABETH A. WILKINSON
School of Library, Archive, and Information Studies, University College London
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-7379
Print ISSN: 0022-0418
© MCB UP Limited
1972
Journal of Documentation (1972) 28 (2): 122–130.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb026534

Recent discussion of Bradford's law of scatter has been founded on two formulations that are not mathematically equivalent. A method of comparing the two formulations against empirical data is developed, and the results using four sets of existing data are discussed. The results show that one particular formulation is more consistent with the practical situation.

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