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. 2019 Oct 14;15(10):e1007427. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007427

Table 1. Comparison of different models’ abilities in capturing subjects’ patterns of decoy efficacies based on three goodness-of-fit measures.

Model
#
Number of parameters Model parameters Cross-validation prediction error AIC BIC
1 7 fp,fm,b1,b2,b3,b4,σ 0.3716 285.84 305.91
2 5 b1,b2,b3,b4,σ 0.0456 211.77 226.10
3 7 fp12,fm12,fp34,fm34,b12,b34,σ 0.0371 128.28 148.35
4 5 fp,fm,b12,b34,σ 0.0344 127.53 141.86
5 5 fp,fm,b13,b24,σ 0.0433 205.53 219.86
6 5 fp,fm,b14,b23,σ 0.0476 223.96 238.29
7 6 fp,fm,b12,b34,b0,σ 0.0359 128.06 145.26
8 6 fp,fm,b13,b24,b0,σ 0.0472 223.12 240.32
9 6 fp,fm,b14,b23,b0,σ 0.0493 230.05 247.25
10 5 b0,f0,b12,b34,σ 0.0521 231.08 245.41
11 4 f0,b12,b34,σ 0.0538 237.63 249.10
12 4 b0,fp,fm,σ 0.4007 303.31 314.78
13 4 b0,b12,b34,σ 0.0402 181.30 192.77
14 3 fp,fm,σ 0.0382 169.93 178.53
15 3 b12,b34,σ 0.0459 214.97 223.57
16 3 b0,f0,σ 0.0502 227.08 235.68
17 2 b0,σ 0.0461 213.70 219.43

Reported are cross-validation prediction error (i.e., the absolute difference between the predicted and actual), AIC, and BIC values for each model and its corresponding sets of parameters. The green shading indicates the best overall model, and blue shading shows the best model with only low-level components. As parameters, σ measures the stochasticity in choice, f0 is the single neural representation factor, and fp and fm are independent neural representation factors for probability and magnitude, respectively. fpij (respectively, fmij) indicates location-dependent representation factors for probability (respectively, magnitude) with similar values for decoys at locations i and j. High-level parameters b0 and bk (k = {1,2,3,4}) indicate the constant and location-dependent biases, respectively, and determine the weights of different attributes on final choice (bij indicates the case in which location-dependent biases bi and bj are assumed to have the same value, bi = bj = bij).