A shift in strategy or “error”? Strategy classification over multiple stochastic specifications

Journal Title: Judgment and Decision Making - Year 2011, Vol 6, Issue 8

Abstract

We present a classification methodology that jointly assigns to a decision maker a best-fitting decision strategy for a set of choice data as well as a best-fitting stochastic specification of that decision strategy. Our methodology utilizes normalized maximum likelihood as a model selection criterion to compare multiple, possibly non-nested, stochastic specifications of candidate strategies. In addition to single strategy with “error” stochastic specifications, we consider mixture specifications, i.e., strategies comprised of a probability distribution over multiple strategies. In this way, our approach generalizes the classification framework of Bröder and Schiffer (2003a). We apply our methodology to an existing dataset and find that some decision makers are best fit by a single strategy with varying levels of error, while others are best described as using a mixture specification over multiple strategies.

Authors and Affiliations

Clintin P. Davis-Stober and Nicholas Brown

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Clintin P. Davis-Stober and Nicholas Brown (2011). A shift in strategy or “error”? Strategy classification over multiple stochastic specifications. Judgment and Decision Making, 6(8), -. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-677863