TY - JOUR
T1 - Ampliative inference
T2 - on choosing a probability distribution
AU - Osherson, Daniel
AU - Shafir, Eldar
AU - Smith, Edward E.
N1 - Funding Information:
Research support was provided by the Swiss National Science Foundation Contract No. 21-32399.91 to Osherson, by US Public Health Service Grant No. l-R29-MH46885 from NIMH to Shafir, and by Air Force Office of Scientific Research Contract No. AFOSR-91-0265 to Smith. We thank two anonymous referees for insightful comments on an earlier draft of this paper. *Corresponding author. e-mail: [email protected]
PY - 1993/12
Y1 - 1993/12
N2 - Ampliative inference is the choice of a probability distribution on the basis of incomplete information. We consider some psychological and normative questions that arise about this kind of reasoning. The discussion is largely tutorial although a substantive hypothesis is also advanced.
AB - Ampliative inference is the choice of a probability distribution on the basis of incomplete information. We consider some psychological and normative questions that arise about this kind of reasoning. The discussion is largely tutorial although a substantive hypothesis is also advanced.
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U2 - 10.1016/0010-0277(93)90004-F
DO - 10.1016/0010-0277(93)90004-F
M3 - Article
C2 - 8131375
AN - SCOPUS:0027767385
SN - 0010-0277
VL - 49
SP - 189
EP - 210
JO - Cognition
JF - Cognition
IS - 3
ER -