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.
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experimenters may well find that different measures better suit their
purpose; hopefully, in this survey the relationship between different
measures has now been established, and so ]ong as complete sets of figures
are given in reporting test results, there should be no serious difficu]ty
in converting from one set of measures to another. Ultimately, one
assumes that something approaching general agreement will be reached on
the measures to be used. All that we would claim is that the measures used
in this report appear to be as good as any others so far proposed.