Bayesian Psychometry

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• Philipp Hennig (University of Cambridge)
• Monday 11 October 2010, 11:00-12:00
• Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

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I will present a novel generative model—and associated approximate inference algorithm—for answers given in questionnaires. In contrast to the state of the art methods from psychology, the new model allows for the fact that answers to different questions mean different things to different people.

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