On people's understanding of the diagnostic implications of probabilistic data

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 644-654

  Doherty, Michael E ^a   Chadwick, Randall ^a   Garavan, Hugh ^a   Barr, David ^a   Mynatt, Clifford R ^a  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEARNING; PROBABILITY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0029774132     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03201089     Document Type: Article

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