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Peer reviewedMurphy, Gregory L.; Ross, Brian H. – Cognitive Psychology, 1994
Eleven experiments involving over 200 undergraduate students investigated how categorization of examples influences feature prediction for new examples. Results suggest that category-based prediction generally relies on a single category rather than multiple categories when there is a clear target category. (SLD)
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Classification, Higher Education, Inferences
