Article history: Available online 13 September 2013

Human observations during behavioral studies are expensive, time-consuming, and error prone. For this reason, automatization of experiments is highly desirable, as it reduces the risk of human errors and workload. The robotic system we developed is simple and cheap to build and handles feeding and data collection automatically. The system was built using mostly off-the-shelf components and has ...

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The present article aims to present a series of software developments in the quantitative analysis of data obtained via single-case experimental designs (SCEDs), as well as the tutorial describing these developments. The tutorial focuses on software implementations based on freely available platforms such as R and aims to bring statistical advances closer to applied researchers and help them be...

We develop and experimentally test a model of endogenous entry, exit, and bidding in common value auctions. The model and experimental design include an alternative profitable activity (a “safe haven”) that provides agentspecific opportunity costs of bidding in the auction. Each agent chooses whether to accept the safe haven income or forgo it in order to bid in the auction. Agents that enter t...

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Proportional Hazards models have been widely used to analyze survival data. In many cases survival data do not verify the assumption of proportional hazards. An alternative to the PH models with more relaxed conditions are Accelerated Failure Time models. These models are fairly commonly used in the field of manufacturing, but they are more and more frequent for modeling clinical trial data. Th...

The main objective of the present study is to investigate the feasibility of using Carboxymethyl chitosan magnetic nanoparticles (CCMN) for the adsorption of Cd2+. The study also reports important parameters, which affect the adsorption process, i.e., pH, adsorbent dose, contact time and concentration of Cd2+, using Box-Behnken designs. Firstly, functional carboxymethyl chitosan magnetic nanopa...

In this pedagogical note, we treat prior elicitation and experimental design within a common decision making framework. This is contrary to the standard practice of assuming that priors are already available when performing Bayesian experimental design. We argue instead that these processes are intertwined. We demonstrate our decision-theoretic stance in the setting of learning a causal Bayesia...