Natural frequencies facilitate diagnostic inferences of managers

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue MAY, 2015, Pages

  Hoffrage, Ulrich ^a   Hafenbrädl, Sebastian ^a   Bouquet, Cyril ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b IMD   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Applied business statistics; Bayesian inference; Executives; Management; Natural frequency; Representation format; Updating beliefs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930939994     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00642     Document Type: Article

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