Was bernoulli wrong? On intuitions about sample size

Journal of Behavioral Decision Making

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 133-139

  Sedlmeier, Peter ^a   Gigerenzer, Gerd ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Law of large numbers; Sample size; Statistical reasoning

Indexed keywords

EID: 22844455801     PISSN: 08943257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-0771(200001/03)13:1<133::AID-BDM352>3.0.CO;2-H     Document Type: Article

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