Decision by sampling
2006/01/27 by Neil Stewart, Nick Chater, Gordon D.A. Brown +1 · 747 citations
Decision Sciences · Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Mathematics · #Artificial intelligence #Computer science #Context (archaeology) #Contrast (vision) #Decision theory #Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics #Discounting #Econometrics #Economic and Environmental Valuation #Economics #Forecasting Techniques and Applications #Mathematics #Rank (graph theory) #Sample (material) #Sampling (signal processing) #Statistics
paper · doi:10.1016/j.cogpsych.2005.10.003
published in Cognitive Psychology 53(1), 1-26 (Elsevier BV)
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