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Uncertainty under hyperbolic discounting: the cost of untying your hands [PDF]
Journal of Economics Finance and Administrative Science, 2019 Purpose - The relevance of present consumption bias on personal finance has been confirmed in several studies and has important theoretical and practical implications.
Christian Diego Alcocer +2 more
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UGAE: A Novel Approach to Non-exponential Discounting
, 2023 The discounting mechanism in Reinforcement Learning determines the relative importance of future and present rewards. While exponential discounting is widely used in practice, non-exponential discounting methods that align with human behavior are often desirable for creating human-like agents.
Kwiatkowski, Ariel +3 more
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Sensor Reliability Evaluation Scheme for Target Classification Using Belief Function Theory
Sensors, 2013 In the target classification based on belief function theory, sensor reliability evaluation has two basic issues: reasonable dissimilarity measure among evidences, and adaptive combination of static and dynamic discounting. One solution to the two issues
Jing Zhu, Yupin Luo, Jianjun Zhou
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An IDEA for short term outbreak projection: nearcasting using the basic reproduction number. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 BACKGROUND: Communicable disease outbreaks of novel or existing pathogens threaten human health around the globe. It would be desirable to rapidly characterize such outbreaks and develop accurate projections of their duration and cumulative size even ...
David N Fisman +3 more
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A Reinforcement Learning Model of Precommitment in Decision Making
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2010 Addiction and many other disorders are linked to impulsivity, where a suboptimal choice is preferred when it is immediately available. One solution to impulsivity is precommitment: constraining one's future to avoid being offered a suboptimal choice.
Zeb eKurth-Nelson, A. David eRedish
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Using the past to estimate sensory uncertainty
eLife, 2020 To form a more reliable percept of the environment, the brain needs to estimate its own sensory uncertainty. Current theories of perceptual inference assume that the brain computes sensory uncertainty instantaneously and independently for each stimulus ...
Ulrik Beierholm +4 more
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Valuation of opportunity costs by rats working for rewarding electrical brain stimulation. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Pursuit of one goal typically precludes simultaneous pursuit of another. Thus, each exclusive activity entails an "opportunity cost:" the forgone benefits from the next-best activity eschewed.
Rebecca Brana Solomon +2 more
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Modeling alternatives to exponential discounting [PDF]
, 2009 Masteroppgave i økonomi og administrasjon - Universitetet i Agder ...
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Modèles de décision intertemporels et temps subjectivement perçu
Œconomia, 2017 In most disciplines, the nature of time has been the cause of harsh debates between the partisans of objective linear time and those in favor of subjective time.
André Lapied, Olivier Renault
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Time Inconsistency and Retirement Choice [PDF]
, 2015 Hyperbolic discounting with naiveté is widely believed to provide a better explanation than exponential discounting of why people borrow so much and why they wait so long to save for retirement. We reach a different set of conclusions.
Caliendo, Frank N., Findley, T. Scott
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