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"Specifically, because of a false belief called the 'law of small numbers,' people attribute negative serial correlation to an identical and independently distributed stochastic process."
Shefrin (2001) [book]

Top 10 Papers

1. TVERSKY, A. and D. KAHNEMAN, 1971. Belief in the law of small numbers. Psychological Bulletin. [Cited by 566] (15.62/year)
2. RABIN, M., 2002. INFERENCE BY BELIEVERS IN THE LAW OF SMALL NUMBERS. Technology. [Cited by 99] (18.91/year)
3. QUATTRONE, G.A. and E.E. JONES, pan>. … perception of variability within in-groups and out-groups: Implications for the law of small numbers. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1980<. [Cited by 66] (?/year)
4. SCHMIDT, F.L. and J.E. HUNTER, 1978. Moderator research and the law of small numbers. Personnel Psychology. [Cited by 28] (0.96/year)
5. MURAKI, N., 2001. Monotonic independence, monotonic central limit theorem and monotonic law of small numbers. Infin. Dimens. Anal. Quantum Probab. Relat. Top. [Cited by 17] (2.73/year)
6. GUY, R.K., 1988. The Strong Law of Small Numbers. The American Mathematical Monthly. [Cited by 14] (0.73/year)
7. GARDNER, M., D.J. ALBERS and P.L. RENZ, 2005. [BOOK] Mathematical Games. eric.ed.gov. [Cited by 468] (209.40/year)
8. KAHNEMAN, D., P. SLOVIC and A. TVERSKY, 1982. [BOOK] Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases. books.google.com. [Cited by 3376] (133.78/year)
9. KAHNEMAN, D. and A. TVERSKY, 1971. Belief in the law of small numbers. Psychological Bulletin. [Cited by 8] (0.22/year)
10. KONTOYIANNIS, I., P. HARREMOES and O. JOHNSON, 2005. Entropy and the law of small numbers. Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on. [Cited by 8] (3.58/year)

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