Distribution of “Characteristic” Terms in MEDLINE Literatures

Given the occurrence frequency of any term within any set of articles within MEDLINE, we define “characteristic” terms as words and phrases that occur in that literature more frequently than expected by chance (at p < 0.001 or better). In this report, we studied how the cut-off criterion vari...

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Main Authors: Vetle I. Torvik, Wei Zhou, Neil R. Smalheiser
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2011-03-01
Series:Information
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2078-2489/2/2/266/