Application of loglinear models to informetric phenomena

摘要

Informetrics deals with the search for regularities in data associated with the production and use of recorded information. Most of the methods used in the past implicitly assume that the variables of importance are quantitative in form. Yet much relevant data is categorical. In this paper we point out the existence of techniques for analyzing such data. Examples of informetric phenomena for which these techniques are important are given, and one, involving the book purchasing pattern of a group of libraries, is studied in detail.