id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 5341 Lamothe, Alain R. The Importance of Identifying and Accommodating E-Resource Usage Data for the Presence of Outliers. The Negative Impacts of Inaccurate E-Journal Usage Data. 2014-06-22 14 .pdf application/pdf 5756 482 58 libraries having e-resource subscription pricing based on usage statistics, the presence of outliers four-year period of stable annual usage levels.8 Between 2006 and 2010, the total number of fulltext articles downloaded from the library's e-journal collection ranged between 640,000 and The first step is to identify suspected outliers by visually examining an entire usage dataset. Table 2 provides the number of articles downloaded for the title Polymer over a four-year period. When visually comparing the suspected outlier of 15,123 downloads to the rest of the values number of outliers in a dataset.29 The Q value is calculated by measuring the difference in the gap Table 3 represents the number of full-text articles downloaded for Polymer after the outlier had accepted value for the number of articles downloaded from Polymer in October 2010. 2. For each suspected outlier identified, take the usage values for the affected e-journal title ./cache/5341.pdf ./txt/5341.txt