DocumentCode
1189093
Title
Relative Frequency Analysis to Assess Communication Feedback in a Malfunction-Coding Scheme
Author
Greenberg, G. ; Greenberg, S.A. ; Bennett, E.M.
Author_Institution
International Electric Corp., Paramus. N. J.
Issue
1
fYear
1962
fDate
3/1/1962 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
22
Lastpage
24
Abstract
Samples of data generated by the coding scheme now being used by the military to collect statistics on equipment malfunction were analyzed by psycholinguistic means. Frequency-to-rank distributions plotted on logarithmic coordinates were compared with Zipf´s generalization and were found to be markedly aberrant. It is deemed likely that this reflects a lack of sufficient feedback from the users of malfunction data to those who report the data and to those who are responsible for the design of the coding scheme.
Keywords
Electrons; Feedback; Frequency; Helium; Military equipment; Psychology; Shape; Statistical analysis; Statistical distributions; Vocabulary;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Human Factors in Electronics, IRE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0099-4561
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/THFE2.1962.4503331
Filename
4503331
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