Determining informative priors for cognitive models
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Determining informative priors for cognitive models.
The development of cognitive models involves the creative scientific formalization of assumptions, based on theory, observation, and other relevant information. In the Bayesian approach to implementing, testing, and using cognitive models, assumptions can influence both the likelihood function of the model, usually corresponding to assumptions about psychological processes, and the prior distri...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1069-9384,1531-5320
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-017-1238-3