Nice graphs, good R2, but still a poor fit? How to be more sure your model explains your data

Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling, ICCM 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 247-252

  Taatgen, Niels ^a   Van Rijn, Hedderik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Declarative memory; Mixed effect models; Model fitting; Time perception

Indexed keywords

FIXED EFFECTS; MIXED-EFFECT MODELS; MIXED-EFFECTS MODELS; MODEL FITTING; QUALITY OF FIT; TIME ESTIMATION; TIME PERCEPTION;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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