MPTinR: Analysis of multinomial processing tree models in R

Behavior Research Methods

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 560-575

  Singmann, Henrik ^a   Kellen, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fisher information; MPT models; R; Software

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DECISION TREE; HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RECOGNITION;

ALGORITHMS; DECISION TREES; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOFTWARE;

EID: 84878259539     PISSN: 1554351X     EISSN: 15543528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13428-012-0259-0     Document Type: Article

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