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Measurement in information science

Bert R. Boyce, Charles T. Meadow, and Donald H. Kraft, Academic Press, 1994, pp. xvii + 283

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  • Bert R. Boyce, Charles T. Meadow, and Donald H. Kraft, Measurement in Information Science,Academic Press, 1994, pp. xvii+283

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Dubin, D. Measurement in information science. Journal of Classification 14, 327–330 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03036411

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