Assessing individual differences in categorical data

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 713-731

  Smith, Jared B ^a   Batchelder, William H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEARNING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PSYCHOLOGY; READING; RECALL; RECOGNITION; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

ATTENTION; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MENTAL RECALL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SERIAL LEARNING; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 50949105657     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/PBR.15.4.713     Document Type: Article

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