Basic understanding of posterior probability

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Girotto, Vittorio ^a   Pighin, Stefania ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY IUAV OF VENICE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Intuitive judgments; Natural frequencies; Number of chances; Posterior probability; Updating

Indexed keywords

EID: 85014280761     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00680     Document Type: Article

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