Identifying decision strategies: A process-and outcome-based classification method

Behavior Research Methods

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 795-807

  Riedl, René ^a   Brandstätter, Eduard ^a   Roithmayr, Friedrich ^a  

^a JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CONFERENCE PAPER; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 50849083803     PISSN: 1554351X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BRM.40.3.795     Document Type: Conference Paper

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