1Economic Analysis Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Mysore Road, RVCE Post, Bangalore - 560 059. E-mail: nssnarayana@hotmail.com; narayana@isibang.ac.in
2S.V. University Library, Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati - 517 502
Bradford's Law in bibliometrics is viewed as consisting of two aspects. First one is the distribution aspect which is purely a mathematical pattern. The other aspect is the relevance of such a distribution to bibliometrics. This paper deals with the methodology for estimating Bradford groups within a given set of bibliometric data. The paper also proposes a simple and easily adaptable statistical search method (SSM) and illustrates the application of the method.
Bradford Distribution//Groups/Law, Geometric progression, Degree of Concentration, Chi-square test, Root mean square error
