کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
972792 932683 2009 14 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
The problem of meaningfulness: Weber's law, Guilford's power law, and the near-miss-to-Weber's law
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه ریاضیات ریاضیات کاربردی
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The problem of meaningfulness: Weber's law, Guilford's power law, and the near-miss-to-Weber's law
چکیده انگلیسی
The present paper provides reformulations of common models of discrimination, like for instance, Weber's law, Guilford's power law, and the near-miss-to-Weber's law. All models are based on the assumption that the model parameters might depend on the underlying physical stimulus scale by which the physical intensities are measured. By discussing the meaningfulness of the model parameters, we come to the conclusion that the near-miss-to-Weber's law can be applied to physical quantities which are measured on a ratio-, interval-, or log-interval scale, whereas applications of Weber's law and Guilford's power law are necessarily restricted to physical ratio scales. Finally, we discuss the meaningfulness of an empirically based submodel of the near-miss-to-Weber's law, referred to as fixed-point model. The results show that, from a theoretical point of view, the fixed-point model is superior to Guilford's power law and the near-miss-to-Weber's law.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Mathematical Social Sciences - Volume 57, Issue 1, January 2009, Pages 117-130
نویسندگان
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