Sample size, confidence, and contingency judgement

Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 128-137

  Clément, Mélanie ^a   Mercier, Pierre ^b   Pastò, Luigi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PROBABILITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROBABILITY; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 0036595236     PISSN: 11961961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/h0087391     Document Type: Article

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