Independence and dependence in human causal reasoning

Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 72, Issue , 2014, Pages 54-107

  Rehder, Bob ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal inference; Causal Markov condition; Causal reasoning; Conditional independence; Screening off

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; LEARNING; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; THINKING; YOUNG ADULT;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; HUMANS; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; THINKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84896977824     PISSN: 00100285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2014.02.002     Document Type: Article

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