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SOME FURTHER OBSERVATIONS ON THE MEASUREMENT OF CLUSTERING IN FREE RECALL
Author(s) -
DALRYMPLEALFORD E. C.
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1971.tb02043.x
Subject(s) - spurious relationship , cluster analysis , free recall , psychology , recall , cluster (spacecraft) , cluster grouping , cognitive psychology , statistics , computer science , mathematics , programming language , mathematics education
Properties of recently proposed measures of clustering in recall are considered. Applying some measures to computer‐generated sequences revealed that some of them are likely to give a spurious picture of differences in the tendency for items to cluster in sequences that also differ in length.