Dynamics of inductive inference in a unified framework

Journal of Economic Theory

Volumn 148, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1399-1432

  Gilboa, Itzhak ^a,b,c   Samuelson, Larry ^c   Schmeidler, David ^a,d,e  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HEC PARIS   (France)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e INTERDISCIPLINARY CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Analogies; Case based reasoning; Induction; Learning; Rule based reasoning; Theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878657156     PISSN: 00220531     EISSN: 10957235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jet.2012.11.004     Document Type: Article

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