multinomineq: Bayesian Inference for Multinomial Models with Inequality Constraints

Implements Gibbs sampling and Bayes factors for multinomial models with linear inequality constraints on the vector of probability parameters. As special cases, the model class includes models that predict a linear order of binomial probabilities (e.g., p[1] < p[2] < p[3] < .50) and mixture models assuming that the parameter vector p must be inside the convex hull of a finite number of predicted patterns (i.e., vertices). A formal definition of inequality-constrained multinomial models and the implemented computational methods is provided in: Heck, D.W., & Davis-Stober, C.P. (2019). Multinomial models with linear inequality constraints: Overview and improvements of computational methods for Bayesian inference. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 91, 70-87. <doi:10.1016/j.jmp.2019.03.004>. Inequality-constrained multinomial models have applications in the area of judgment and decision making to fit and test random utility models (Regenwetter, M., Dana, J., & Davis-Stober, C.P. (2011). Transitivity of preferences. Psychological Review, 118, 42–56, <doi:10.1037/a0021150>) or to perform outcome-based strategy classification to select the decision strategy that provides the best account for a vector of observed choice frequencies (Heck, D.W., Hilbig, B.E., & Moshagen, M. (2017). From information processing to decisions: Formalizing and comparing probabilistic choice models. Cognitive Psychology, 96, 26–40. <doi:10.1016/j.cogpsych.2017.05.003>).

Version: 0.2.6
Depends: R (≥ 4.0.0)
Imports: Rcpp (≥ 0.12.11), parallel, Rglpk, quadprog, coda, RcppXPtrUtils
LinkingTo: Rcpp, RcppArmadillo, RcppProgress
Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, testthat, covr
Published: 2024-02-20
Author: Daniel W. Heck ORCID iD [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Daniel W. Heck <daniel.heck at uni-marburg.de>
License: GPL-3
URL: https://github.com/danheck/multinomineq
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