A Statistical Description of Operant Conditioning
Frederick C. Frick, George Armitage Miller · The American Journal of Psychology · 1951
This paper presents an application to operant conditioning and extinction of procedures that can be used to analyze serial dependencies in behavior. In an earlier paper it was argued that the usual analysis in terms of particular responses assumes, often unjustifiably, independence of successive behavioral events and may ignore important sequential dependencies.' Techniques for handling such information are here applied and extended.