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VBA: A Probabilistic Treatment of Nonlinear Models for Neurobiological and Behavioural Data
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This work is in line with an on-going effort tending toward a computational (quantitative and refutable) understanding of human neuro-cognitive processes. Many sophisticated models for behavioural and neurobiological data have flourished during the past decade. Most of these models are partly unspecified (i.e. they have unknown parameters) and nonlinear. This makes them difficult to peer with a formal statistical data analysis framework. In turn, this compromises the reproducibility of model-based empirical studies. This work exposes a software toolbox that provides generic, efficient and robust probabilistic solutions to the three problems of model-based analysis of empirical data: (i) data simulation, (ii) parameter estimation/model selection, and (iii) experimental design optimization.
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“The workflow includes the extraction of empirical priors from a combination of our pilot data and the data shared from Lawson et al. [17], parameter recovery and model identifiability based on simulated data, posterior predictive checks and random-effect analysis Bayesian model comparison as implemented in the VBA toolbox [41].”
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- Daunizeau, J., Adam, V., & Rigoux, L.
- Affiliations
- Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit (GB)
- Institut du Cerveau (FR)
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- 2014-01-23
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- 1553-734X (ISSN-L)
- 1553-7358
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- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference
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- Keywords
- stochastic modeling, nonlinear models, parameter estimation, model selection, data simulation, experimental design optimization, behavioral data, computational neuroscience, reproducibility
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- Algorithms, Bayes Theorem, Cognition, Computer Simulation, Decision Making, Humans, Models, Biological, Models, Neurological, Nerve Net, Probability, Software, Stochastic Processes, Normal Distribution, Computational Biology
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