Linked Life Data

20438245

Source:http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/id/20438245

Statements in which the resource exists as a subject.
PredicateObject
rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-5-4
pubmed:abstractText
On the basis of the statistical concept of waiting time and on computer simulations of the "probabilities of nonoccurrence" (p. 457) for random sequences, Hahn and Warren (2009) proposed that given people's experience of a finite data stream from the environment, the gambler's fallacy is not as gross an error as it might seem. We deal with two critical issues in Hahn and Warren's argument, a possible ambiguity in distinguishing the events of occurrence and nonoccurrence, and an incomplete consideration of the context in which the statistics of waiting time are defined. Our analyses show that the statistics of waiting time and the probabilities of nonoccurrence, once correctly interpreted, do not vindicate the error in the gambler's fallacy.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
1939-1471
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved.
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
117
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
697-705; discussion 706-11
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
Occurrence and nonoccurrence of random sequences: comment on Hahn and Warren (2009).
pubmed:affiliation
School of Health Information Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA. yanlong.sun@uth.tmc.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comment, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't