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application/pdf en text Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2026-12-01 The student, Yu Huang, accepted the attached license on 2024-12-03 at 11:01. The student, Yu Huang, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2024-12-03 at 11:17. This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2024-12-05 at 11:40. DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #21433 on 2025-03-28 at 14:55:28 This dissertation investigates rational decision-making through transitivity, probabilistic choice models, and inequality-constrained statistical inference. Applying established statistical frameworks to new domains, it examines transitivity in animal dominance hierarchies, moral judgment, and social choice theory. The work demonstrates that dominance hierarchies in animals and moral preferences in humans largely satisfy transitivity, while providing empirical evaluations of social choice methods. A key methodological contribution is a new algorithm for computing Bayes factors in high-dimensional inequality-constrained models, offering superior performance for high-dimensional statistical analyses. This work extends existing theoretical and statistical tools to new empirical domains while advancing our understanding of rational choice behavior. 2024-12 Thesis https://hdl.handle.net/2142/127479 Copyright 2024 Yu Huang Testing transitivity using inequality-constrained inference: Transitivity, probabilistic models, and inequality-constrained inference Huang, Yu 2024-12-05 Regenwetter, Michel Regenwetter, Michel Koehn, Hans Friedrich Hotaling, Jared Cervantes, V´ıctor Cavagnaro, Daniel Rational Choice Theory Transitivity Probabilistic Choice Inequality-constrained Statistical Methods Bayes Factors Convex Polytopes Social Dominance Hierarchies Social Choice Theory Random Utility Model eng Psychology Psychology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Ph.D. Dissertation