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Symmetric Limiting Distributions of Response Probabilities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

G. S. Marliss
Affiliation:
University of Alberta
J. R. McGregor
Affiliation:
University of Alberta

Abstract

Necessary and sufficient conditions for the symmetry of the limiting distributions of response probabilities are derived for the Bush and Mosteller two experimenter-controlled events learning model [Bush and Mosteller, 1955].

Type
Original Paper
Copyright
Copyright © 1968 The Psychometric Society

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Footnotes

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Now at the Imperial College, London.

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