Bootstrap Methods for the Empirical Study of Decision-Making and Information Flows in Social Systems

Bootstrap Methods for the Empirical Study of Decision-Making and Information Flows in Social Systems

We characterize the statistical bootstrap for the estimation of informationtheoretic quantities from data, with particular reference to its use in the study of large-scale social phenomena. Our methods allow one to preserve, approximately, the underlying axiomatic relationships of information theory...

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Main Authors: Tim Hitchcock, Sara Klingenstein, Robert X. D. Hawkins, Simon DeDeo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2013-06-01
Series:Entropy
Subjects:
biological systems
cognition
social systems
information theory
statistical estimation
bootstrap
Bayesian estimation
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/15/6/2246

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