ConceptBuilder: An open-source software tool for measuring, depicting, and quantifying causal models

Behavior Research Methods

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 128-136

  Kim, Nancy S ^a   Park, Edward Y ^b  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AthenaHealth   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; STATISTICAL MODEL;

FEEDBACK; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SOFTWARE;

EID: 65349188870     PISSN: 1554351X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BRM.41.1.128     Document Type: Article

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