An update on Bayesian updating

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 125-134

  Holt, Charles A ^a   Smith, Angela M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Baye's rule; Laboratory experiments; Probability weighting

Indexed keywords

EID: 58649088014     PISSN: 01672681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2007.08.013     Document Type: Article

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