Framing of imprecise quantities: When are lower interval bounds preferred to upper bounds?

Journal of Behavioral Decision Making

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 490-509

  Halberg, Anne Marie ^a   Teigen, Karl Halvor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Framing; Interval estimates; Negations; Uncertainty; Upper lower limit asymmetry

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349336293     PISSN: 08943257     EISSN: 10990771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdm.635     Document Type: Article

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