A critique of Frederick Mosteller and Robert R. Bush's stochastic models for learning
Anatol Rapoport · Systems Research and Behavioral Science · 2007
A stochastic process is one in which the probabilities of a set of events keep changing with time. Bush and Mosteller make use of the mathematical techniques developed for the study of such processes in building a theory of learning and then apply the theory to explain the results of several learning experiments. The reasoning behind their theory and its applications to one of the experiments are discussed here.