Probabilistic judgment on a coarser scale

Cognitive Systems Research

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 161-172

  Sun, Yanlong ^a   Wang, Hongbin ^a   Zhang, Jiajie ^a   Smith, Jack W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Internal representation; Probabilistic judgment; Scale

Indexed keywords

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; STATISTICAL METHODS; UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

HUMAN ERRORS; PROBABILISTIC JUDGMENT;

PROBABILITY;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZATION; RATING SCALE; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 43049176354     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13890417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogsys.2007.03.001     Document Type: Article

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