Similar but not the same: A comparison of the utility of directly rated and feature-based similarity measures for generating spatial models of conceptual data

Behavior Research Methods

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 889-900

  Dry, Matthew J ^a   Storms, Gert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SEMANTICS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BAYES THEOREM; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SEMANTICS;

EID: 68949174042     PISSN: 1554351X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BRM.41.3.889     Document Type: Article

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