How prior probability influences decision making: A unifying probabilistic model

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages 1268-1276

  Huang, Yanping ^a   Friesen, Abram L ^a   Hanks, Timothy D ^b   Shadlen, Michael N ^c   Rao, Rajesh P N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION VARIABLES; DESCRIPTIVE MODEL; DISCRIMINATION TASKS; EXPERIMENTAL DATUM; PARTIALLY OBSERVABLE MARKOV DECISION PROCESS; PRIOR INFORMATION; PROBABILISTIC MODELS; TEMPORAL INTEGRATION;

DATA INTEGRATION;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84877743917     PISSN: 10495258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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