Constructing informative model priors using hierarchical methods

Journal of Mathematical Psychology

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 106-117

  Vanpaemel, Wolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Abstraction; Bayes; Category learning; Estimation; Hierarchical; Informative; Priors; Subjective

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551649905     PISSN: 00222496     EISSN: 10960880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmp.2010.08.005     Document Type: Article

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