Transitive in our preferences, but transitive in different ways: an analysis of choice variability.

DR Cavagnaro, CP Davis-Stober - Decision, 2014 - psycnet.apa.org
Numerous empirical studies have examined the question of whether transitivity of
preference is a viable axiom of human decision making, but they arrive at different …

QTest 2.1: Quantitative testing of theories of binary choice using Bayesian inference

CE Zwilling, DR Cavagnaro, M Regenwetter… - Journal of Mathematical …, 2019 - Elsevier
This stand-alone tutorial gives an introduction to the QTest 2.1 public domain software
package for the specification and statistical analysis of certain order-constrained …

The role of independence and stationarity in probabilistic models of binary choice

M Regenwetter, CP Davis‐Stober - Journal of behavioral …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
After more then 50 years of probabilistic choice modeling in economics, marketing, political
science, psychology, and related disciplines, theoretical and computational advances give …

Testing a class of models that includes majority rule and regret theories: Transitivity, recycling, and restricted branch independence.

MH Birnbaum, E Diecidue - Decision, 2015 - psycnet.apa.org
Six experiments compared 4 classes of decision-making models that make different
predictions for tests of 3 diagnostic behavioral properties. These properties are transitivity of …

MARTER: Markov true and error model of drifting parameters

MH Birnbaum, L Wan - Judgment and Decision Making, 2020 - cambridge.org
This paper describes a theory of the variability of risky choice that describes empirical
properties of choice data, including sequential effects and systematic violations of response …

True-and-error models violate independence and yet they are testable

MH Birnbaum - Judgment and Decision making, 2013 - cambridge.org
Birnbaum (2011) criticized tests of transitivity that are based entirely on binary choice
proportions. When assumptions of independence and stationarity (iid) of choice responses …

Risky decision making: Testing for violations of transitivity predicted by an editing mechanism

MH Birnbaum, D Navarro-Martinez… - … and Decision Making, 2016 - cambridge.org
Transitivity is the assumption that if a person prefers A to B and B to C, then that person
should prefer A to C. This article explores a paradigm in which Birnbaum, Patton and Lott …

Are intertemporal preferences transitive? A Bayesian analysis of repeated individual intertemporal choices.

J Dai - Decision, 2017 - psycnet.apa.org
Transitivity of preferences is a central axiom of rational decision making. Previous research
on intertemporal choice has suggested that intertemporal preferences might be intransitive …

Bayesian inference and model comparison for random choice structures

WJ McCausland, AAJ Marley - Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 2014 - Elsevier
We complete the development of a testing ground for axioms of stochastic discrete choice,
begun in McCausland and Marley (2013). Our contribution here is to develop new posterior …

(Ir) rationality of animal choice? A guide to testing transitivity

M Regenwetter, CP Davis-Stober… - … Quarterly Review of …, 2021 - journals.uchicago.edu
Testing rationality of decision-making and choice by evaluating the mathematical property of
transitivity has a long tradition in biology, economics, psychology, and zoology. This …