{"title":"Relative Frequency Analysis to Assess Communication Feedback in a Malfunction-Coding Scheme","authors":"G. Greenberg, S. Greenberg, E. Bennett","doi":"10.1109/THFE2.1962.4503331","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Samples of data generated by the coding scheme now being used by the military to collect statistics on equipment malfunction were analyzed by psycholinguistic means. Frequency-to-rank distributions plotted on logarithmic coordinates were compared with Zipf's generalization and were found to be markedly aberrant. It is deemed likely that this reflects a lack of sufficient feedback from the users of malfunction data to those who report the data and to those who are responsible for the design of the coding scheme.","PeriodicalId":410568,"journal":{"name":"Ire Transactions on Human Factors in Electronics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1962-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Ire Transactions on Human Factors in Electronics","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/THFE2.1962.4503331","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Samples of data generated by the coding scheme now being used by the military to collect statistics on equipment malfunction were analyzed by psycholinguistic means. Frequency-to-rank distributions plotted on logarithmic coordinates were compared with Zipf's generalization and were found to be markedly aberrant. It is deemed likely that this reflects a lack of sufficient feedback from the users of malfunction data to those who report the data and to those who are responsible for the design of the coding scheme.