How do people take into account weight, strength and quality of segregated vs. aggregated data? Experimental evidence

Journal of Risk and Uncertainty

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 113-142

  Kraemer, Carlo ^a   Weber, Martin ^a  

^a Finanzwirtschaft   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bayes' rule; heuristics; weight and strength of information

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EID: 4444334419     PISSN: 08955646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:RISK.0000038940.62992.1b     Document Type: Article

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