Risks of drawing inferences about cognitive processes from model fits to individual versus average performance
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Risks of drawing inferences about cognitive processes from model fits to individual versus average performance.
With the goal of drawing inferences about underlying processes from fits of theoretical models to cognitive data, we examined the tradeoff of risks of depending on model fits to individual performance versus risks of depending on fits to averaged data with respect to estimation of values of a model's parameters. Comparisons based on several models applied to experiments on recognition and categ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1069-9384,1531-5320
DOI: 10.3758/bf03193784