The bias bias

Journal of Business Research

Volumn 68, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1772-1784

  Brighton, Henry ^a   Gigerenzer, Gerd ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bias bias; Bias variance dilemma; Occam's razor; Out of sample prediction; Simple heuristics; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930275708     PISSN: 01482963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2015.01.061     Document Type: Article

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