Collaborative Research on Probabilistic Models of Social Choice

这个与格罗夫曼(9730578)合作的项目涉及选择心理模型在投票行为和其他选择过程的实际数据中的应用。我们的目标是开发概率选择模型，使我们能够根据观察到的投票选择的部分数据重建潜在的偏好模式，重点是开发可以在世界各地的选举数据上进行测试的模型。我们还将研究根据差异对潜在的认知信息处理进行分类的方法，例如基于“偏好”的选择和基于所谓的“判断”的选择，我们还考虑了不同类型的认知机制可能需要不同的测量技术。我们的工作与一些不同社会科学学科的最新发展相联系，特别是经济学和政治学，以及统计学中的随机效用模型。

This collaborative project with Grofman (9730578) deals with applications of psychological models of choice to actual data on voting behavior and other choice processes. We aim to develop probabilistic models of choice that will enable us to reconstruct underlying patterns of preferences from partial data on observed voting choices, with a focus on developing models that can be tested on data from elections around the world. We also will look at ways of classifying underlying cognitive information processing in terms of distinctions such as choices based on `preferences` versus choices based on what may be called `judgements,` and we consider how different measurement techniques may be needed for different types of cognitive mechanisms. Our work is linked to recent developments in a number of different social science disciplines, especially economics and political science, and to random utility models in statistics.