TY - JOUR
T1 - A note on the multiple-trace memory model without simulation
AU - Sheu, Ching Fan
N1 - Funding Information:
I thank Roger Ratcliff and Scott Gronlund for their many valuable comments on this work. I am most grateful to Richard M. Shiffrin for his detailed remarks on an earlier draft of this note. This research was supported by NSF Grant 8510361, NIMH Grant MH44640 to Roger RatclitT, and NSF Grant 8516350 to Gail McKoon. Address reprint requests to Chin-Fan Sheu at the Department of Psychology, Baker Hall, Room 345A, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890.
PY - 1992/12
Y1 - 1992/12
N2 - The multiple-trace memory model, MINERVA 2 (Hintzman, 1984, 1986, 1988), has usually been examined using the computer simulation method. This article presents an analytic treatment using probability theory, leading to closed form solutions for the probability mass functions of the model distributions. The expected values of such distributions are found to relate to the model parameters in a straightforward manner. However, variances of the distributions do not appear to take on simple forms. Exact quantitative predictions of the model are greatly facilitated by the analytical results.
AB - The multiple-trace memory model, MINERVA 2 (Hintzman, 1984, 1986, 1988), has usually been examined using the computer simulation method. This article presents an analytic treatment using probability theory, leading to closed form solutions for the probability mass functions of the model distributions. The expected values of such distributions are found to relate to the model parameters in a straightforward manner. However, variances of the distributions do not appear to take on simple forms. Exact quantitative predictions of the model are greatly facilitated by the analytical results.
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U2 - 10.1016/0022-2496(92)90111-J
DO - 10.1016/0022-2496(92)90111-J
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:38249008507
SN - 0022-2496
VL - 36
SP - 592
EP - 597
JO - Journal of Mathematical Psychology
JF - Journal of Mathematical Psychology
IS - 4
ER -