Preference patterns for skewed gambles in rhesus monkeys

Biology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Strait, Caleb E ^a   Hayden, Benjamin Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision; Gambling; Macaque; Risk; Skewness

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; DECISION ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRIMATE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DECISION; DECISION MAKING; GAMBLING; MACACA; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; REWARD; RHESUS MONKEY; RISK; SKEWNESS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

DECISION; GAMBLING; MACAQUE; RISK; SKEWNESS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; MACACA MULATTA; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROBABILITY; REWARD; RISK; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84891925428     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2013.0902     Document Type: Article

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