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[From Richard Kennaway (990507.1628 BST)]

>[From Bruce Abbott (990507.1010 EST)]
>Ra is the rate of delivery of pellets per unit time.
...
>Ra/rA would indeed be a property of the "lever" (schedule associated with
>the lever) independent of the rat if the schedule in question were a ratio
>schedule, which imposes a particular ratio of lever-presses per pellet
>delivery.

Ah.  So the matching law does not -- mathematically cannot -- hold for
ratio schedules?  For what circumstances is the matching law claimed to
hold?  The posted article didn't say.

I have a few other questions of detail:  What are the VR3 and VR6 schedules
mentioned in the posted article?  (If someone can send me the article
"LO20774" it references, that will do.)  Where do the numbers 1/3 and 1/6
in the article come from?

Sorry if this is basic background knowledge to anyone with any acquaintance
with experimental psychology, but I'm not a psychologist.

-- Richard Kennaway, jrk@sys.uea.ac.uk, http://www.sys.uea.ac.uk/~jrk/
   School of Information Systems, Univ. of East Anglia, Norwich, U.K.