CRANV2
Aslib Cranfield Research Project: Factors Determining the Performance of Indexing Systems: Volume 2
Methods for presentation of results
chapter
Cyril Cleverdon
Michael Keen
Cranfield
An investigation supported by a grant to Aslib by the National Science Foundation.
Use, reproduction, or publication, in whole or in part, is permitted for any purpose of the United States Government.
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FIGURE 3.1ST
Recall Fallout Precision
Ratio Ratio Ra*.lo
A B A ]3 A B
93.4% 93.4% 48. 329% 48. 330% 1.1% 1.7%
77.3% 77.3% 16. 500% 16. 502% 2.7% 4.2%
54. 7% 55. [OCRerr]% 6.954% 6. 055% 5. 2% 8.7%
32.8% 31. 2% 1. 540% 1. 538% 13. 5% 24. 4%
16.4% 14. 9% 0. 547%. 0. 586% 25. 5% 54.3%
8. 0% 6. 9% 0. 381% 0. 377% 38. 3% 64. 2%
2. 8% 3.3% 0. 192% 0. 190% 50. 0% 77. 8%
A Average of Numbers
B Average of Ratios
COMPARISON OF RECALL, FALLOUT AND PRECISION RATIO
WIIEN TOTALLED BY (A) AVERAGING OF NUMBERS AND (B)
AVERAGING, TItE RATIOS FOR 35 QUESTIONS.
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FIGURE 3.19P
AVERAGE OF THE RATIOS
AVERAGE OF THE NUMBERS
PLOT OF RECALL AND PRECISION RATIOS FROM
FIGURE 3. 18T COMPARING TOTALLING BY AVERAGING
TIIE NUMBERS AND AVERAGING THE RATIOS