The challenge of representative design in psychology and economics

Journal of Economic Methodology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 253-263

  Hogarth, Robin M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Experiments; Representative design; Sampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 20444438849     PISSN: 1350178X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13501780500086172     Document Type: Article

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