Feature inference and the causal structure of categories

Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 264-314

  Rehder, Bob ^a   Burnett, Russell C ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; LEARNING; LOGIC; PROBABILITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BAYES THEOREM; CAUSALITY; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; LOGIC; MARKOV CHAINS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 16844378738     PISSN: 00100285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2004.09.002     Document Type: Article

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