AREA UNDER THE CURVE AS A MEASURE OF DISCOUNTING
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- 1 September 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
- Vol. 76 (2), 235-243
- https://doi.org/10.1901/jeab.2001.76-235
Abstract
We describe a novel approach to the measurement of discounting based on calculating the area under the empirical discounting function. This approach avoids some of the problems associated with measures based on estimates of the parameters of theoretical ...Keywords
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