Sentence examples for role of predictions from inspiring English sources

And I'd like to pursue the question a bit more, not just or even mainly about Schiff, but more broadly about the role of predictions — including wrong predictions — in economics.

Noah Smith has a further entry in the ongoing discussion of microfoundations and all that; I have some minor quibbles, but right now I just want to pursue a train of thought I've been having about the role of predictions in economic doctrine.

"Much of the most thoughtful work I have found on the use and abuse of statistical models, and on the proper role of prediction, comes from people in the medical profession," Silver reports.

We explore the impact of growing complexity and dynamism on these approaches and the role of prediction and control in their design and implementation.

Operating from the assumptions of complexity reduction, we may have an overly optimistic view of the role of prediction and of its effectiveness; "the Chinese strategist looks at the configuration and its potential and makes the most of its consequences as they unfold" (Aligica, 2007, p. 333), i.e., complexity absorption.

This Bayesian brain perspective emphasises the role of prediction in making inferences about the behaviour of others; particularly in linguistic communication.

Although the role of prediction errors has been mainly explored for reinforcement learning so far, there is growing evidence that prediction errors may be equally important for learning statistical relationships that are affectively neutral and behaviorally irrelevant.

The results of the present study support the notion that the role of prediction errors in learning transcends the simple reinforcement of stimulus response links and plays a more pervasive and general role in various forms of learning.

We have previously studied the role of prediction in solving problems that are associated with the detection of motion using a dynamical and probabilistic model of spatial integration (Perrinet and Masson 2012).

The results obtained in our study are coherent with the role of prediction and preparation proposed for the cerebellum [ 117], given that after cerebellar lesion some executive functions remains, although clearly deteriorated.

Given the role of prediction error seems to be to signal a discrepancy between actual sensory input and sensory input expected on the basis of the model of the world currently held to have the highest likelihood, we can expect that the role of the error signal will be to cause model update.