Use of base rates and case cue information in making likelihood estimates

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 603-618

  Stolarz Fantino, Stephanie ^a   Fantino, Edmund ^a   Van Borst, Nicholas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BAYES THEOREM; COLLEGE STUDENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION; NORMAL HUMAN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE; COGNITION; FEMALE; MALE; VISION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE; COGNITION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33748865017     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193583     Document Type: Article

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