Tuning Your Priors to the World

Topics in Cognitive Science

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 13-34

  Feldman, Jacob ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayes; Frequentism; Prior probability; Subjectivism

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHILOSOPHY; PSYCHOLOGY; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

BAYES THEOREM; COGNITIVE SCIENCE; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHILOSOPHY; PROBABILITY THEORY;

EID: 84872768999     PISSN: 17568757     EISSN: 17568765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tops.12003     Document Type: Article

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