Availability: A heuristic for judging frequency and probability

1973/09/01 by Amos Tversky, Daniel Kahneman · 136 citations
Mathematics · Arts and Humanities · Decision Sciences · #Statistics Education and Methodologies #Philosophy and History of Science #Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics

paper · doi:10.1016/0010-0285(73)90033-9

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