Precision and accuracy of judgmental estimation

Journal of Behavioral Decision Making

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 21-32

  Yaniv, Ilan ^a   Foster, Dean P ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy informativeness trade off; Graininess of judgment; Judgmental estimation; Subjective confidence interval

Indexed keywords

EID: 21444444215     PISSN: 08943257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-0771(199703)10:1<21::AID-BDM243>3.0.CO;2-G     Document Type: Article

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