A descriptivist approach to trait conceptualization and inference

Psychological Review

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 90-96

  Jonas, Katherine G ^a   Markon, Kristian E ^a  

^a University of Iowa   (United States)

Author keywords

Description length; Latent variable; Model inference; Trait theory

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84952865522     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0039542     Document Type: Note

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