Further evaluating the conditional decision rule for comparing two independent means

British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 217-244

  Hayes, Andrew F ^a   Li, Cai ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; EVALUATION; HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL;

DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 36549056034     PISSN: 00071102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/000711005X62576     Document Type: Article

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