Theoretical and empirical review of multinomial process tree modeling

• Published in: Psychonomic bulletin & review Vol. 6; no. 1; pp. 57 - 86
• Main Authors: Batchelder, W H, Riefer, D M
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.03.1999
• Subjects: Association; Cognition; Decision Making; Humans; Memory; Models, Psychological; Psychological Theory; Speech Perception

We review a current and popular class of cognitive models called multinomial processing tree (MPT) models. MPT models are simple, substantively motivated statistical models that can be applied to categorical data. They are useful as data-analysis tools for measuring underlying or latent cognitive ca...