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Comments on “Markovian Processes with Identifiable States: General Considerations and Applications to All-or-None Learning”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

James G. Greeno
Affiliation:
Indiana University
Theodore E. Steiner
Affiliation:
University of Illinois

Abstract

When knowledge of the response sequence permits one to specify the sequence of theoretical states that occurred, we propose to say that the theory has observable states. Our earlier usage of “identifiable” conflicts with established usage in econometrics. We also present a revised definition of implication between theories that avoids a technical flaw in the earlier definition, and we correct a mistake in an example in our earlier paper.

Type
Original Paper
Copyright
Copyright © 1968 The Psychometric Society

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