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The construction of limiting distributions of response probabilities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

G. S. Marliss
Affiliation:
Imperial College of Science and Technology, London
J. R. McGregor
Affiliation:
University of Alberta, Edmonton

Extract

As stated elsewhere [9], the two experimenter-controlled events learning model of Bush and Mosteller [1] may be described by a Markov process X0,X1, ···satisfying the following conditions.

  1. (i) Xo has an arbitrary distribution on (0, 1).

  2. (ii) If Xn is given, then with probability π1 and with probability π2

  3. (ii)

Type
Research Papers
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1971 

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