Modern Bayesian experimental design

T Rainforth, A Foster, DR Ivanova… - Statistical …, 2024 - projecteuclid.org
Bayesian experimental design (BED) provides a powerful and general framework for
optimizing the design of experiments. However, its deployment often poses substantial …

[HTML][HTML] Individual differences in computational psychiatry: A review of current challenges

P Karvelis, MP Paulus, AO Diaconescu - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral …, 2023 - Elsevier
Bringing precision to the understanding and treatment of mental disorders requires
instruments for studying clinically relevant individual differences. One promising approach is …

[HTML][HTML] Bayes factor design analysis: Planning for compelling evidence

FD Schönbrodt, EJ Wagenmakers - Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2018 - Springer
A sizeable literature exists on the use of frequentist power analysis in the null-hypothesis
significance testing (NHST) paradigm to facilitate the design of informative experiments. In …

A review of modern computational algorithms for Bayesian optimal design

EG Ryan, CC Drovandi, JM McGree… - International Statistical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Bayesian experimental design is a fast growing area of research with many real‐world
applications. As computational power has increased over the years, so has the development …

Optimizing sequential experimental design with deep reinforcement learning

T Blau, EV Bonilla, I Chades… - … conference on machine …, 2022 - proceedings.mlr.press
Bayesian approaches developed to solve the optimal design of sequential experiments are
mathematically elegant but computationally challenging. Recently, techniques using …

[HTML][HTML] Bayesian adaptive estimation of the contrast sensitivity function: the quick CSF method

LA Lesmes, ZL Lu, J Baek, TD Albright - Journal of vision, 2010 - tvst.arvojournals.org
The contrast sensitivity function (CSF) predicts functional vision better than acuity, but long
testing times prevent its psychophysical assessment in clinical and practical applications …

Adaptive Bayesian quantum tomography

F Huszár, NMT Houlsby - Physical Review A—Atomic, Molecular, and Optical …, 2012 - APS
In this paper we revisit the problem of optimal design of quantum tomographic experiments.
In contrast to previous approaches where an optimal set of measurements is decided in …

Asking the right questions about the psychology of human inquiry: Nine open challenges

A Coenen, JD Nelson, TM Gureckis - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2019 - Springer
The ability to act on the world with the goal of gaining information is core to human
adaptability and intelligence. Perhaps the most successful and influential account of such …

A tutorial on adaptive design optimization

JI Myung, DR Cavagnaro, MA Pitt - Journal of mathematical psychology, 2013 - Elsevier
Experimentation is ubiquitous in the field of psychology and fundamental to the
advancement of its science, and one of the biggest challenges for researchers is designing …

Experience matters: Information acquisition optimizes probability gain

JD Nelson, CRM McKenzie, GW Cottrell… - Psychological …, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
Deciding which piece of information to acquire or attend to is fundamental to perception,
categorization, medical diagnosis, and scientific inference. Four statistical theories of the …