Decision-making in research tasks with sequential testing

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Pfeiffer, Thomas ^a   Rand, David G ^a,b   Dreber, Anna ^a,c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c STOCKHOLM SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PUBLICATION; RELIABILITY; SEQUENTIAL ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84887212454     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004607     Document Type: Article

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