Random search with unequal search rates: Serial and parallel generalizations of McGill's model
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Random search with unequal search rates: Serial and parallel generalizations of McGill's model
zbMATH Open document ID: 0607.92025
DOI: 10.1016/0022-2496(87)90033-2
author: Dirk Vorberg
author: Rolf Ulrich
published in: Journal of Mathematical Psychology
publication date: 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z
review text: The authors examine a generalization of \textit{W. J. McGill}'s random search model [Stochastic latency mechanisms. In R. D. Luce, R. R. Busch and E. Galanter (eds.), Handbook of mathematical psychology. Vol. I, 309- 360 (1963; Zbl 0128.399)], in which the items in the search area are allowed to vary with respect to accessability. The model to be analyzed is equivalently described as a serial and as a parallel model. Predictions are derived for the means and variances of the interresponse times and for the number of recalls in the time interval [0,t]. The predictions are compared with those obtained using the individual differences generalization of McGill's model proposed by \textit{D. G. Morrison}, J. Math. Psychol. 19, 307-315 (1979; Zbl 0413.62088). Maximum likelihood estimation of the model parameters is given and briefly discussed.
reviewed by: Ivan Křivý
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 91E99
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 62P15
zbMATH DE Number: 3982989
zbMATH Keywords: unequal search rates
zbMATH Keywords: parallel model
zbMATH Keywords: serial model
zbMATH Keywords: cognitive psychology
zbMATH Keywords: random search model
zbMATH Keywords: accessability
zbMATH Keywords: means
zbMATH Keywords: variances
zbMATH Keywords: interresponse times
zbMATH Keywords: number of recalls
zbMATH Keywords: predictions
zbMATH Keywords: individual differences generalization
zbMATH Keywords: Maximum likelihood estimation
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