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Research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse. Mathematics in the social sciences. alexgelas.com
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As some of you guessed, the two models are statistically indistinguishable. The answer is Model 1, but there was no way to tell from the data. I was very surprised when I first saw this. Here we show that this confounding of heterogeneity and reinforcement is general: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Did Model 1 or Model 2 generate these sequences? Why? Model 1: Pólya urn, starting with one black and one red ball. 1 (0) stands for black (red). Model 2: Empty probit model, random intercepts with mean 0, ICC = 1/2. All 100,000 sequences here: tinyurl.com/35pkyfxa

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