A probabilistic threshold model: Analyzing semantic categorization data with the Rasch model

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 135, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 216-225

  Verheyen, Steven ^a   Hampton, James A ^b   Storms, Gert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Categorization; Similarity; Typicality

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BELGIUM; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMAN; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEMANTICS;

BELGIUM; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PROBABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEMANTICS;

EID: 77957159318     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2010.07.002     Document Type: Article

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