The field of education technology is embracing a use of learning analytics to improve student experiences of learning. Along with exponential growth in this area is an increasing concern of the interpretability of the analytics from the student experience and what they can tell us about learning. This study offers a way to address some of the concerns of collecting and interpreting learning ana...

This paper presents and philosophically assesses three types of results on the observational equivalence of continuous-time measure-theoretic deterministic and indeterministic descriptions. The first results establish observational equivalence to abstract mathematical descriptions. The second results are stronger because they show observational equivalence between deterministic and indeterminis...

Subtyping in first order object calculi is studied with respect to the logical semantics obtained by identifying terms that satisfy the same set of predicates, as formalized through an assignment system. It is shown that equality in the full first order ς-calculus is modelled by this notion, which on turn is included in a Morris style contextual equivalence.

Mere observation of others’ choices can be informative about product quality. This paper develops an individual-level dynamic model of observational learning, and applies it to a novel data set from the U.S. kidney market where transplant candidates on a waiting list sequentially decide whether to accept a kidney offer. We find strong evidence of observational learning: patients draw negative q...

M observation of others’ choices can be informative about product quality. This paper develops an individual-level dynamic model of observational learning and applies it to a novel data set from the U.S. kidney market, where transplant candidates on a waiting list sequentially decide whether to accept a kidney offer. We find strong evidence of observational learning: patients draw negative qual...

Major cognitive and emotional faculties are dominantly lateralized in the human cerebral cortex. The mechanism of this lateralization has remained elusive owing to the inaccessibility of human brains to many experimental manipulations. In this study we demonstrate the hemispheric lateralization of observational fear learning in mice. Using unilateral inactivation as well as electrical stimulati...

We report a laboratory experiment that investigates the impact of observational learning and visual information display on bubble formation in asset markets with inexperienced and experienced traders. We first vary whether the continuously-updated transaction prices are displayed in a column of text or in a graphical display (with time on the X-axis and price on the Y-axis). Second, to explore ...

March 19, 2015 Version 2.0-10 Date 2015-03-18 Author Diego Colombo, Alain Hauser, Markus Kalisch, Martin Maechler Maintainer Markus Kalisch Title Methods for Graphical Models and Causal Inference Description Functions for causal structure learning and causal inference using graphical models. The main algorithms for causal structure learning are PC (for observational ...