An analysis of Bradford multipliers and a model to explain law of scattering

In his book on “Documentation”, Bradford derived the law of scattering, based on algebric explanation with the supposition that n1=n2=n. n1 and n2 are computed based on average no. of articles per journals in the first three zones. An analysis of a small sample of 12 data sets, using t-test suggests that it is unlikely that n1=n2. Further an attempt has been made to identify a suitable model to explain the law of scattering; among the various models tried, log-normal fits much better than many models including the log-linear model.

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