On imitative behavior. II. Time course of change from one behavior to another

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N. Rashevsky1
1The University of Chicago, Committee on Mathematical Biology, Chicago, USA

Tóm tắt

The theory developed in previous papers and based on distribution curves of definite form is generalized to any form of unimodel distributions. The time course of the change from one behavior to another is discussed and a general theorem about the time course is established.

Tài liệu tham khảo

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