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This chapter dedicates attention to three important statistical issues in applied informetrics: Are journal impact factors good predictors of the actual citation rates of individual articles? To what extent do errors or biases cancel out in large datasets? And how should one interpret linear or rank correlation coefficients?
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Moed, H.F. (2017). Statistical Aspects. In: Applied Evaluative Informetrics. Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Scientific and Scholarly Communication. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60522-7_5
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