A SIMULATION STUDY CONCERNING THE EFFECT OF ERRORS ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF KNOWLEDGE SPACES BY QUERYING EXPERTS

Authors
Citation
M. Schrepp et T. Held, A SIMULATION STUDY CONCERNING THE EFFECT OF ERRORS ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF KNOWLEDGE SPACES BY QUERYING EXPERTS, Journal of mathematical psychology, 39(4), 1995, pp. 376-382
Citations number
8
Categorie Soggetti
Psychologym Experimental","Social Sciences, Mathematical Methods","Mathematical, Methods, Social Sciences
ISSN journal
00222496
Volume
39
Issue
4
Year of publication
1995
Pages
376 - 382
Database
ISI
SICI code
0022-2496(1995)39:4<376:ASSCTE>2.0.ZU;2-E
Abstract
Adaptive procedures for the construction of knowledge spaces by queryi ng experts recently have been developed (see for example Dowling, 1993 or Koppen, 1993). In these procedures an expert judges assertions on the set of underlying questions. The procedures minimize the number of such assertions necessary for the construction of a knowledge space b y drawing inferences from the judgements already obtained. The questio n is what happens if an expert judges some of these assertions incorre ctly? incorrect inferences are drawn from the incorrect judgements, wh ich then have an influence on the resulting knowledge space. A simulat ion study is presented which shows that even a small probability of er rors by the expert can have a strong influence on the knowledge space resulting from the querying procedure. (C) 1995 Academic Press. Inc.