What’s in a sample? a manual for building cognitive theories

Information Sampling and Adaptive Cognition

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 239-260

  Gigerenzer, Gerd ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE   (Germany)

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EID: 84926080632     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511614576.011     Document Type: Chapter

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