TEMAP2.R: True and Error model analysis program in R

True and Error Theory (TET) provides a method to separate the variability of behavior into components due to changing true policy and to random error. TET is a testable theory that can serve as a statistical model, allowing one to evaluate substantive theories as nested, special cases. TET is more a...

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Main Authors: Michael H. Birnbaum, Edika G. Quispe-Torreblanca
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2018-09-01
Series:Judgment and Decision Making
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Online Access:http://journal.sjdm.org/18/18507/jdm18507.pdf
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description True and Error Theory (TET) provides a method to separate the variability of behavior into components due to changing true policy and to random error. TET is a testable theory that can serve as a statistical model, allowing one to evaluate substantive theories as nested, special cases. TET is more accurate descriptively and has theoretical advantages over previous approaches. This paper presents a freely available computer program in R that can be used to fit and evaluate both TET and substantive theories that are special cases of it. The program performs Monte Carlo simulations to generate distributions of test statistics and bootstrapping to provide confidence intervals on parameter estimates. Use of the program is illustrated by a reanalysis of previously published data testing whether what appeared to be violations of Expected Utility (EU) theory (Allais paradoxes) by previous methods might actually be consistent with EU theory.
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spelling doaj.art-9813852122274d9a9140ca8ff4aa54022023-09-03T03:57:05ZengCambridge University PressJudgment and Decision Making1930-29752018-09-01135428440TEMAP2.R: True and Error model analysis program in RMichael H. BirnbaumEdika G. Quispe-TorreblancaTrue and Error Theory (TET) provides a method to separate the variability of behavior into components due to changing true policy and to random error. TET is a testable theory that can serve as a statistical model, allowing one to evaluate substantive theories as nested, special cases. TET is more accurate descriptively and has theoretical advantages over previous approaches. This paper presents a freely available computer program in R that can be used to fit and evaluate both TET and substantive theories that are special cases of it. The program performs Monte Carlo simulations to generate distributions of test statistics and bootstrapping to provide confidence intervals on parameter estimates. Use of the program is illustrated by a reanalysis of previously published data testing whether what appeared to be violations of Expected Utility (EU) theory (Allais paradoxes) by previous methods might actually be consistent with EU theory.http://journal.sjdm.org/18/18507/jdm18507.pdfTrue and Error Theory R Monte Carlo simulation expected utility theory paradoxesNAKeywords
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True and Error Theory
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Monte Carlo simulation
expected utility theory
paradoxesNAKeywords
title TEMAP2.R: True and Error model analysis program in R
title_full TEMAP2.R: True and Error model analysis program in R
title_fullStr TEMAP2.R: True and Error model analysis program in R
title_full_unstemmed TEMAP2.R: True and Error model analysis program in R
title_short TEMAP2.R: True and Error model analysis program in R
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topic True and Error Theory
R
Monte Carlo simulation
expected utility theory
paradoxesNAKeywords
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