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Direct linkKemp, Charles; Perfors, Amy; Tenenbaum, Joshua B. – Developmental Science, 2007
Inductive learning is impossible without overhypotheses, or constraints on the hypotheses considered by the learner. Some of these overhypotheses must be innate, but we suggest that hierarchical Bayesian models can help to explain how the rest are acquired. To illustrate this claim, we develop models that acquire two kinds of…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Logical Thinking, Models, Statistical Analysis
