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Acknowledgements
The authors are grateful to Professor B.L. Adeleke, Department of Statistics, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria for his computational assistance and useful comments on the draft of this article. They also appreciate the assistance of Messrs. M.A. Sulaiman and D.T. Razaq, University of Ilorin College of Health Sciences Library, for the collection of data for the study.
About the authors
I.A. Alao is Acting College Librarian in the College of Health Sciences at the University of Ilorin in Nigeria. A.L. Folorunso and H.T. Saka are Cataloguers in the University of Ilorin Library.
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