Semantic Coherence and Inconsistency in Estimating Conditional Probabilities

Journal of Behavioral Decision Making

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 237-246

  Wolfe, Christopher R ^a   Fisher, Christopher R ^a   Reyna, Valerie F ^b  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Bayes' theorem; Bayesian; Conditional probability; Probability estimation; Semantic coherence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879605095     PISSN: 08943257     EISSN: 10990771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdm.1756     Document Type: Article

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