Beliefs about what types of mechanisms produce random sequences

Journal of Behavioral Decision Making

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 414-427

  Blinder, Deborah S ^a   Oppenheimer, Daniel M ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Equiprobability; Fixed alternatives; Independence of events; Randomness

Indexed keywords

EID: 55549089289     PISSN: 08943257     EISSN: 10990771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdm.596     Document Type: Article

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