Rational Randomness. The Role of Sampling in an Algorithmic Account of Preschooler's Causal Learning

Advances in Child Development and Behavior

Volumn 43, Issue , 2012, Pages 161-191

  Bonawitz, E ^a   Gopnik, A ^a   Denison, S ^a   Griffiths, T L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Monte carlo algorithms; Rationality and variability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866761601     PISSN: 00652407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-397919-3.00006-X     Document Type: Chapter

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