Heuristics and normative models of judgment under uncertainty *

International Journal of Approximate Reasoning

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 221-235

  Wang, Pei ^a,b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Heuristics and bias; Insufficient knowledge and resources; Nonaxiomatic reasoning system; Normative and descriptive models; Subjective probability

Indexed keywords

EID: 25444496131     PISSN: 0888613X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0888-613X(95)00091-T     Document Type: Article

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