Rarely occurring headaches and rarely occurring blindness: Is rarely = rarely?: The meaning of verbal frequentistic labels in specific medical contexts

Journal of Behavioral Decision Making

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 153-172

  Fischer, Katrin ^a   Jungermann, Helmut ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Base rate effects; Context effects; Medical decision making; Verbal frequentistic labels

Indexed keywords

EID: 21344451361     PISSN: 08943257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-0771(199609)9:3<153::aid-bdm222>3.0.co;2-w     Document Type: Article

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