Context-content systems of random variables: the contextuality-by-default theory
From MaRDI portal
Abstract: This paper provides a systematic yet accessible presentation of the Contextuality-by-Default theory. The consideration is confined to finite systems of categorical random variables, which allows us to focus on the basics of the theory without using full-scale measure-theoretic language. Contextuality-by-Default is a theory of random variables identified by their contents and their contexts, so that two variables have a joint distribution if and only if they share a context. Intuitively, the content of a random variable is the entity the random variable measures or responds to, while the context is formed by the conditions under which these measurements or responses are obtained. A system of random variables consists of stochastically unrelated "bunches," each of which is a set of jointly distributed random variables sharing a context. The variables that have the same content in different contexts form "connections" between the bunches. A probabilistic coupling of this system is a set of random variables obtained by imposing a joint distribution on the stochastically unrelated bunches. A system is considered noncontextual or contextual according to whether it can or cannot be coupled so that the joint distributions imposed on its connections possess a certain property (in the present version of the theory, "maximality"). We present a criterion of contextuality for a special class of systems of random variables, called cyclic systems. We also introduce a general measure of contextuality that makes use of (quasi-)couplings whose distributions may involve negative numbers or numbers greater than 1 in place of probabilities.
Recommendations
- Contextuality in canonical systems of random variables
- Contextuality-by-default 2.0: systems with binary random variables
- Contextuality-by-default: a brief overview of ideas, concepts, and terminology
- Probabilistic foundations of contextuality
- On joint distributions, counterfactual values and hidden variables in understanding contextuality
Cites work
- A new polynomial-time algorithm for linear programming
- Contextuality, Cohomology and Paradox
- Contextuality-by-default: a brief overview of ideas, concepts, and terminology
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1416816 (Why is no real title available?)
- Is there contextuality in behavioural and social systems?
- Measuring Observable Quantum Contextuality
- Minimal distance to approximating noncontextual system as a measure of contextuality
- Negative probabilities and counterfactual reasoning on the double-slit experiment
- On the Problem of Hidden Variables in Quantum Mechanics
- Probabilistic foundations of contextuality
- Proof of a conjecture on contextuality in cyclic systems with binary variables
- Proposed experiment to test local hidden-variable theories
- Selective influence through conditional independence
- Selectivity in probabilistic causality: where psychology runs into quantum physics
- Simple test for hidden variables in spin-1 systems
- The sheaf-theoretic structure of non-locality and contextuality
- Toward the trichotomy method of reaction times: Laying the foundation of stochastic mental networks
- When are probabilistic explanations possible?
Cited in
(38)- Data fusion using Hilbert space multi-dimensional models
- Contextuality-by-default 2.0: systems with binary random variables
- Advanced analysis of quantum contextuality in a psychophysical double-detection experiment
- Minimal distance to approximating noncontextual system as a measure of contextuality
- On universality of classical probability with contextually labeled random variables
- Quantum like modeling of decision making: quantifying uncertainty with the aid of Heisenberg-Robertson inequality
- Preparation and measurement in quantum memory models
- Contextuality and dichotomizations of random variables
- Is contextuality about the identity of random variables?
- Classical versus quantum probability: comments on the paper ``On universality of classical probability with contextually labeled random variables by E. Dzhafarov and M. Kon
- On universality of classical probability with contextually labeled random variables: response to A. Khrennikov
- True contextuality in a psychophysical experiment
- A note on the relation between the contextual fraction and \(\mathrm{CNT}_2\)
- Contextuality-by-default: a brief overview of ideas, concepts, and terminology
- Proof of a conjecture on contextuality in cyclic systems with binary variables
- Is there contextuality in behavioural and social systems?
- An invitation to coupling and copulas: with applications to multisensory modeling
- Negative probabilities and contextuality
- Syntax and operational semantics of a probabilistic programming language with scopes
- Almost equivalent paradigms of contextuality
- Contextuality in canonical systems of random variables
- Necessary conditions for extended noncontextuality in general sets of random variables
- Replacing nothing with something special: contextuality-by-default and dummy measurements
- Contextuality in three types of quantum-mechanical systems
- Non-locality, contextuality and valuation algebras: a general theory of disagreement
- Generalized Fock space and contextuality
- Relating causal and probabilistic approaches to contextuality
- On joint distributions, counterfactual values and hidden variables in understanding contextuality
- Measures of contextuality and non-contextuality
- Gödel, Escher, Bell: contextual semantics of logical paradoxes
- The contextuality-by-default view of the sheaf-theoretic approach to contextuality
- The causal structure of semantic ambiguities
- Turing video-based cognitive tests to handle entangled concepts
- Spacetime games subsume causal contextuality scenarios
- Stochastic unrelatedness, couplings, and contextuality
- Measuring contextuality in investment preferences
- Causal contextuality and contextuality-by-default are different concepts
- Theoretical framework underlying contextual system of measurements in cognitive domain
This page was built for publication: Context-content systems of random variables: the contextuality-by-default theory
Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q334449)
