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SUMMARY:A hitchhiker’s guide to information theoretical measures in psyc
 hology - Niels Van Santen\, Ghent University\, NL
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CONTACT:Dace Apšvalka
DESCRIPTION:*Speaker:* Niels Van Santen\, Ghent University\, NL\n\n*Title:
 * A hitchhiker’s guide to information theoretical measures in psychology
 \n\n*Abstract:* Information theory and psychology share an interesting his
 tory. In psychology\, as in other sciences\, information theory can be use
 d as a tool for data analysis. It is important to see the potential of inf
 ormation theoretical measures as statistical tools without implying a conn
 ection to their origins in communication theory and engineering. The use o
 f these measures may provide us with additional insights due to their sens
 itivity to non-linear relationships\, their flexibility to the mixing of d
 ata types\, and their more straightforward generalization towards investig
 ating higher-order interactions. We briefly reintroduce information theory
  and compare several measures such as mutual information and co-informatio
 n with correlation and regression-based methods for the investigation of v
 ariable relations\, before giving some examples of how they can be used in
  the search for higher-order behaviours.\n\n*Bio:* I am a third-year Ph.D.
  student at Ghent university and have a background in statistical physics 
 and network science. Now I work under the supervision of Prof. Daniele Mar
 inazzo and Prof. Yves Rosseel on developing and applying information theor
 etical measures for investigating higher-order statistical behaviours in (
 network) psychometrics.\n\n*Venue:* MRC CBU West Wing Seminar Room and Zoo
 m https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82385113580?pwd=RmxIUmphQW9Ud1JBby9nTDQzR0NRdz
 09 (Meeting ID: 823 8511 3580\; Passcode: 299077)\n
LOCATION: MRC-CBU\, 15 Chaucer Road\, Cambridge
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