The joint distribution criterion and the distance tests for selective probabilistic causality

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn , Issue SEP, 2010, Pages

  Dzhafarov, Ehtibar N ^a,b   Kujala, Janne V ^c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

External factors; Joint distribution; Probabilistic causality; Selective influence; Stochastic dependence; Stochastically unrelated; Systems of random variables

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866774563     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00151     Document Type: Article

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