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Statistical Methods for a General Theory of All-or-None Learning

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

Peter G. Polson
Peter G. Polson*
Affiliation:
University of Texas at Austin
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Abstract

Greeno and Steiner have shown that a three state Markov Chain with a single absorbing state is equivalent to many of the current formalizations of All-or-None learning theories. Distribution statistics and other summary statistics are derived from the general model. Expressions for the maximum likelihood estimators of its parameters and the sampling variances of the estimates are presented. Likelihood ratio tests for several different null hypotheses are derived. These tests permit one to evaluate the usual null hypotheses in terms of the parameters of a process model.

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Original Paper
Information
Psychometrika , Volume 35 , Issue 1 , March 1970 , pp. 51 - 72
Copyright
Copyright © 1970 The Psychometric Society

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Footnotes

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This research was supported in part by a USPHS Predoctoral Research Fellowship, 1-F1-MH-31-289-01, by a grant from the Graduate School of the University of Texas, and by grant HD-02212-01 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to Dr. John Theios.

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