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Recently Markov learning models with two unidentifiable presolution success states, an error state, and an absorbing learned state, have been suggested to handle certain aspects of data better than the three state Markov models of the General All or None model type. In attempting to interpret psychologically, and evaluate statistically the adequacy of various classes of Markov models, a knowledge of the relationship between the classes of models would be helpful. This paper considers some aspects of the relationship between the class of General All or None models and the class of Stationary Absorbing Markov models withN error states, andM presolution success states.
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Steiner, T.E., Greeno, J.G. An analysis of some conditions for representingN state Markov processes as general all or none models. Psychometrika 34, 461–487 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02290602
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