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Howard P. Iker is a professor of psychiatry and psychology at the University of Rochester.

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Iker, H.P. An historical note on the use of word-frequency contiguities in content analysis. Comput Hum 8, 93–98 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02530743

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