Informational Models and Their Uses
- 1 March 1964
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Psychometrika
- Vol. 29 (1) , 29-54
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02289566
Abstract
An analysis of the selection and use of informational models in psychological research is undertaken. The axioms of different informational models are presented together with the deductions which have direct empirical application. The models are used to demonstrate many of the inadequacies and inaccuracies involved in the use of information theory in the psychological literature. It is also shown that certain related conceptual ambiguities are understandable in terms of confusions among various models.Keywords
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