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Bayesian Estimation of Multinomial Processing Tree Models with Heterogeneity in Participants and Items

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  • Dora Matzke
  • Conor Dolan
  • William Batchelder
  • Eric-Jan Wagenmakers

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Multinomial processing tree (MPT) models are theoretically motivated stochastic models for the analysis of categorical data. Here we focus on a crossed-random effects extension of the Bayesian latent-trait pair-clustering MPT model. Our approach assumes that participant and item effects combine additively on the probit scale and postulates (multivariate) normal distributions for the random effects. We provide a WinBUGS implementation of the crossed-random effects pair-clustering model and an application to novel experimental data. The present approach may be adapted to handle other MPT models. Copyright The Psychometric Society 2015

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  • Dora Matzke & Conor Dolan & William Batchelder & Eric-Jan Wagenmakers, 2015. "Bayesian Estimation of Multinomial Processing Tree Models with Heterogeneity in Participants and Items," Psychometrika, Springer;The Psychometric Society, vol. 80(1), pages 205-235, March.
  • Handle: RePEc:spr:psycho:v:80:y:2015:i:1:p:205-235
    DOI: 10.1007/s11336-013-9374-9
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