Abstract
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.
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Rashevsky, N. On imitative behavior. II. Time course of change from one behavior to another. Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics 23, 405–411 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02476495
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