The problem of meaningfulness: Weber's law, Guilford's power law, and the near-miss-to-Weber's law

Mathematical social sciences

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 117-130

  Augustin, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Guilford's power law; Meaningfulness; Near miss to Weber's law; Parameters; Scale type; Weber's law

Indexed keywords

EID: 57749207264     PISSN: 01654896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2008.08.003     Document Type: Article

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