“We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff; on the contrary, we may sometimes profitably receive a bushel of chaff for the few grains of truth it may contain.”A. P. Stanley
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Recognition of the need for quantitative methods of analysis in the design and evaluation of military and civilian information systems has led to the work described in this paper.
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This research was conducted under Advanced Research Project Agency contract SD-97.
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Longmire, R.M., Erikson, W.J. Operational measures of information characteristics. Trab. Estad. Invest. Oper. 14, 163–190 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03013702
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