id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 5733 Guthrie, Gerry D.; Slifko, Steven D. Analysis of Search Key Retrieval on a Large Bibliographic File 1972-06-01 5 .pdf application/pdf 1622 180 70 Systems planners are hard pressed to accurately predict the access characteristics of search keys on large on-line bibliographic files when so little is The purposes of this study are ( 1 ) to determine the comparative effectiveness of the 4,5 and 3,3 search keys, ( 2) to compare two predictive For comparative purposes, a second search key file was created and This is a relatively easy survey to conduct since the output list of matching records for any particular key entry is headed with the exact number the file are random with respect to search key, it is predicted that 99.5 In this table, Model2 predicts that only 75.7 percent of requests will return random requests by search key. for assumed random key requests and do not reflect actual usage of the file. The 4,5 search key is more efficient for retrieval of 10 or fewer records ./cache/5733.pdf ./txt/5733.txt