Toward a method of selecting among computational models of cognition.

By Mark A. Pitt, In Jae Myung, Shaobo Zhang. Psychology Review, 2002

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Computational Theory and Mathematics

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An introduction to Bayesian hierarchical models with an application in the theory of signal detection (2005, unknown): “logical literature (see, e.g., Pitt, Myung, & Zhang, 2003 ).”
Model Comparison and the Principle of Parsimony (2015, methodology): “Second, there is the Fisher information approximation (FIA; Pitt et al., 2002; Rissanen, 1996): FIA = − ln p ( y | θ̂ ) + k 2 ln ( n 2π ) + ln ∫ Θ √ det [I(θ)] dθ, (5) where I(θ) denotes the Fisher information matrix of sample size 1 (Ly, Verhagen, & Wagenmakers, in preparation).”
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Tensions Between Scientific Judgement and Statistical Model Selection (2018, background): “Substituting P(x|M) for the role of P(x|θ) in their derivation produces the necessary result. by Pitt et al. (2002).”
Decision Making: Nonrational Theories (2001, background): “Variance decreases with increasing sample size, but also with simpler strategies that have fewer free parameters (and less flexible functional forms; Pitt et al., 2002).”
Heuristic decision making. (2011, background): “For instance, the recognition validity of laypeople and amateur tennis players in predicting the outcomes of the Wimbledon tennis matches is typically around .70, and the validity for judging the population of foreign cities is around .80.”
A practical solution to the pervasive problems ofp values (2007, background): “…methods (e.g., Efron & Tibshirani, 1997), prequential methods (e.g., Dawid, 1984; Wagen-makers, Grünwald, & Steyvers, 2006), and methods based on the principle of minimum description length (MDL; e.g., Grünwald, 2000; Grünwald, Myung, & Pitt, 2005; Pitt, Myung, & Zhang, 2002; Rissanen, 2001).”
Simple heuristics in sports (2012, unknown): “In practice, this is not so easy, as different models explain different dimensions of behavior and have different purposes (Pitt, Myung, & Zhang, 2002 ).”