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A Note on a Class of Probability Matching Models

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

Julian Feldman and
Allen Newell
Julian Feldman
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley
Allen Newell
Affiliation:
The RAND Corporation
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Abstract

Probability matching is shown to be a property of a broad class of models of binary choice behavior.

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Psychometrika , Volume 26 , Issue 3 , September 1961, pp. 333 - 337
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Copyright © 1961 The Psychometric Society

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Footnotes

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This note is based in part on a section of Feldman's doctoral dissertation submitted to the Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie Institute of Technology.

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