June 2013
Intermediate to advanced
352 pages
12h 28m
English
DECISION RESEARCH, PERCEPTRONICS, INC. EUGENE, OREGON AND MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY UNIT CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND
DECISION RESEARCH, PERCEPTRONICS, INC. EUGENE, OREGON
© 1983 THE AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION, INC.
Bayesian inference provides a general framework for evaluating hypotheses. It is a normative method in the sense of prescribing how hypotheses should be evaluated. However, it may also be used descriptively by characterizing people’s actual hypothesis-evaluation behavior in terms of its consistency with or departures from the model. Such a characterization may facilitate the development of psychological accounts of how that ...
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