A comparison between Tsallis's statistics-based and generalized quasi-hyperbolic discount models in humans

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 387, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 551-556

  Takahashi, Taiki ^a  

^a Graduate School of Arts and Sciences   (Japan)

Author keywords

Econophysics; Inconsistency; Intertemporal choice; Multiple selves; Neuroeconomics

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ECONOPHYSICS; INTERTEMPORAL CHOICE; MULTIPLE SELVES; NEUROECONOMICS;

STATISTICAL METHODS;

EID: 36448969435     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2007.09.007     Document Type: Article

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