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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Stochastic models for learning
  title info:
    title: PsycBOOKs
  name:
    name part: Bush, Robert R.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Mosteller, Frederick
    name part: 1916-2006
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 1955
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: preservation
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (365 pages) : illustrations.
  abstract: "The object of this book is to contribute to the study of learning--one of the many fields of psychology. A possible probabilistic framework or model for analyzing data from a variety of experiments on animal and human learning is presented. This model is described in general terms and is applied to a number of experiments. The stress is on the viewpoint that learning is probabilistic or stochastic--that events change the probabilities of the various responses. The book is divided into two main parts. The first presents the general model, describes many of its formal properties, and considers a number of special cases. The second part applies the model to a number of experiments on learning and treats the statistical problems of estimating parameters and measuring goodness of fit. The mathematics used is given in detail in an elementary manner. Serious mathematical difficulties are avoided by Monte Carlo or stat-rat trials that simulate learning experiments by means of routines based on random numbers. Stat-rat trials facilitate the comparison of actual observations with the model. Several special tables will help the reader apply the model to his own experiments"--Jacket. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2014 APA, all rights reserved).
  table of contents: Part I: The mathematical system and the general model -- 1. The basic model -- 2. Stimulus sampling and conditioning -- 3. Sequences of events -- 4. Distributions of response probabilities -- 5. The equal alpha condition -- 6. Approximate methods -- 7. Operators with limits zero and unity -- 8. Commuting operators -- Part II: Applications -- 9. Identification and estimation -- 10. Free-recall verbal learning -- 11. Avoidance training -- 12. An experiment on imitation -- 13. Symmetric choice problems -- 14. Runway experiments -- 15. Evaluations.
  note: [by] Robert R. Bush [and] Frederick Mosteller.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
  note: digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL
  subject:
    topic: Learning, Psychology of
  subject:
    topic: Probabilities
  subject:
    topic: Apprentissage, Psychologie de l'
  subject:
    topic: Probabilités
  subject:
    topic: Learning, Psychology of
  subject:
    topic: Probabilities
  classification: LB1051 .B84
  classification: 154.4
  classification: 81.51
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Stochastic models for learning
    name:
      name part: Bush, Robert R.
    origin info:
      publisher: New York, Wiley [1955]
    identifier: (DLC) 55002611
    identifier: (OCoLC)1416688
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Wiley publications in statistics
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  record info:
    record content source: OCLCE
    record creation date: 100326
    record change date: 20260612153106.7
    record identifier: in00003606609
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng