An optimal adjustment procedure to minimize experiment time in decisions with multiple alternatives

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 339-348

  Hawkins, Guy E ^a   Brown, Scott D ^a   Steyvers, Mark ^b   Wagenmakers, Eric Jan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bayes; Context effect; Decision making; Hick's Law; Model selection; Parameter space partitioning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858407555     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-012-0216-z     Document Type: Article

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