A tutorial on the use of excel 2010 and Excel for Mac 2011 for conducting delay-discounting analyses

Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 375-386

  Reed, Derek D ^a   Kaplan, Brent A ^a   Brewer, Adam T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral economics; Delay discounting; Impulsivity; Microsoft excel; Technology

Indexed keywords

AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; IMPULSIVENESS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REWARD;

AREA UNDER CURVE; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REWARD; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84865253586     PISSN: 00218855     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1901/jaba.2012.45-375     Document Type: Article

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