On the interpretation of removable interactions: A survey of the field 33 years after Loftus.

In a classic 1978 Memory & Cognition article, Geoff Loftus explained why noncrossover interactions are removable. These removable interactions are tied to the scale of measurement for the dependent variable and therefore do not allow unambiguous conclusions about latent psychological processes. In t...

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Publicado en:Memory & Cognition Vol. 40; no. 2; pp. 145 - 161
Autores principales: Wagenmakers, Eric-Jan, Krypotos, Angelos-Miltiadis, Criss, Amy, Iverson, Geoff
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Publicado: Springer Nature Feb2012
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