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Presolution Performance Functions for Markov Models

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

Peter G. Polson
Peter G. Polson*
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University of Colorado
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Abstract

Performance measures, conditionalized on the last error and other events, have been of central concern in the development of absorbing Markov-chain models for learning and problem solving. Expressions for response probabilities and expected latencies conditional on the occurrence of the last error and other events are derived using matrix methods.

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Psychometrika , Volume 37 , Issue 4 , December 1972 , pp. 453 - 459
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Copyright © 1972 The Psychometric Society

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