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Distribution of major scientific and technological achievements in terms of age group — Welbull distribution

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A statistical analysis is made of two data sets and it is found that the distribution of major scientific and technological achievements in terms of the age of those achievement makers is Weibull distribution. Pearson'sx 2 test results are satisfactory. This finding holds for different centuries, different nations and different disciplines.

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  1. Institute of Science, Technology and Society, Henan Normal University, 453002, Xinxiang, China

    Liang Li-Ming & Wang Yuan

  2. Institute for Science of Science, China Academy of Management Science, 100009, Beijing, China

    Zhao Hong-Zhou

  3. Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China, 100038, Beijing, China

    Wu Yi-Shan

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Li-Ming, L., Hong-Zhou, Z., Yuan, W. et al. Distribution of major scientific and technological achievements in terms of age group — Welbull distribution. Scientometrics 36, 3–18 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02126642

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