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Evaluation of a verbal–numerical probability scale

✍ Scribed by Cilia Witteman; Silja Renooij

Book ID
108457772
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2003
Tongue
English
Weight
118 KB
Volume
33
Category
Article
ISSN
0888-613X

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