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Quantitative Methods for Library and Information Science
Rao, I.K. Ravichandra
, Faculty of the Documentation Research and Training Centre (DRTC), Bangalore, Karnataka.
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PRINTED BOOK DETAILS:
ISBN :
978-81-224-2693-9
Publication Year :
1983
Edition :
1st
Reprint :
2009
Pages :
284
Price :
$ 24.75
Binding : Hardbound
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About the Book: |
During the last two decades, libraries have shown a considerable degree of momentum in the collection building and readership program activities, involving considerable expenditure of funds. This rapid development of libraries has, as a consequence, generated several evaluative studies on the usefulness of libraries to society. In such evaluative studies, librarians tried to apply (to many extent) several techniques of other fields (such as, mathematics, statistics, operations research, management science etc.) in order to minimize the subjectivity. In particular, quantitative methods, especially the statistical techniques have become popular in recent years for evaluating the effectiveness and efficiency of information services offered by librarians.
With an objective to explain statistical methods as they are applied to library and information science, the discussion in the text is application oriented. The book will be most useful to post graduate students of Library and Information Science, teachers and also to practising librarians and information scientists. The book can be treated both as a textbook and source book.
The text is based on the lectures delivered by the author at the Documentation Research & Training Centre in Bangalore, to the students of the advanced course in Documentation and Information Science. Various topics in Statistics and other topics related to it are discussed here. These are:
Scales of Measurements, Foundations of Statistics, Measures of Dispersion, Probability Theory, Probability Distributions, Correlation Studies, Sampling Methods, Testing of Hypothesis, Non-Parametric Tests, Analysis of Variance, Bibliometrics (origin, bibliometric distributions-Zipf``s law, Lotka`s law, Law of scattering, characteristics of bibliometric distributions, citation analysis, library use studies).
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About the Author: |
Dr. Ravichandra Rao is currently on the Faculty of the Documentation Research and Training Centre (DRTC), Bangalore, of the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata. After having completed B.Sc. in Mathematics and Statistics from the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial College, Udupi, he joined ISI for the Master`s degree programme in 1968. He obtained his Master`s degree in Statistics from ISI in 1970. Also, he obtained a Diploma in Computer Science from ISI.
He joined DRTC in 1970. Since then he is involved in teaching applied statistics, bibliometrics, programming, library automation and database management with special emphasis on bibliographical databases.
During the mid-70`s, he also obtained his associateship in documentation of the (DRTC) from ISI. In the year 1981, he obtained the Ph.D. degree from the University of Western Ontario, Canada. During the mid-1981, he was on the UN mission in bibliometry and scientomentry to deliver a course of lectures to the students of 4th PG course in Information Science, sponsored by the UNESCO at the Institute of Library Science of the University of the Philippines, Manila.
He has deep experience in research in the field of Library and Information Science. He has several research papers to his credit.
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Contents: |
Part 1: Statistical Methods
- Introduction
- Foundations of Statistics
- Probability Theory
- Probability Distributions
- Correlation Studies
- Sampling Methods
- Testing of Hypothesis
- Non-Parametric Tests
- Analysis of Variance
Part 2: Bibliometrics
- Origins of Biblimetrics
- Bibliometric Distributions
- Characteristics of Bibiliometric Distribution
- Other Bibliometric Studes
- Concluding Remark
Part 3: Bibliography, Appendices and Index.
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Audience: |
Library and Information Science
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