ÿþ<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html><head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="content-type"> <meta name="keywords" content="ryan webb,homepage,neuroeconomics,economics,neuroscience,Center for Neuroeconomics,psychophysics,behavioural economics,experimental economcis,random utility,reward,value,reinforcement learning, stochastic choice"><title>Ryan Webb - Home</title> <style type="text/css"> <!-- BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, Sans Serif; } --> img { max-width:450px; width: expression(this.width > 350 ? 350: true) } </style></head><body> <table style="text-align: left; width: 100%;" border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="vertical-align: top; height: 50px; width: 50px;"><br> </td> <td style="vertical-align: top;"><br> </td> <td style="vertical-align: top;"><br> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="vertical-align: top;"><br> </td> <td style="vertical-align: top; width: 160px; text-align: right;"><img style="width: 160px; height: 191px;" alt="profile photo" src="pic.png"><br> </td> <td style="vertical-align: top;"><big><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ryan Webb</span>, Ph.D.</big><br> <hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"> <a href="http://www.neuroeconomics.nyu.edu/index.php">Center for Neuroeconomics</a><br> <a href="http://www.nyu.edu">New York University</a><br> 4 Washington Place, Room 905<br> New York, NY, 10003, USA<br> <br> <table style="text-align: left; width: 100%;" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="vertical-align: top; width: 100px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-style: italic;">voice:</span><br style="font-style: italic;"> <span style="font-style: italic;">fax:</span><br style="font-style: italic;"> <span style="font-style: italic;">email:</span><br> </td> <td style="vertical-align: top;">(212) 998-3904<br> (212) 995-4011<br> webbr@nyu.edu<br> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="vertical-align: top;"><br> </td> <td style="vertical-align: top;"><br> </td> <td style="vertical-align: top;"> <table style="text-align: left; width: 100%;" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="height: 30px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;"><big><a href="webb-cv.pdf">CV</a><br> </big></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="height: 30px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;"><big><a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1735966">Working Papers</a><br> </big></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="height: 30px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;"><big>Code</big><br> </td> <tr> <td style="height: 30px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;">A matlab <a href="fattailrnd.m">function</a> to generate random draws from a symmetric fat-tailed distribution with user-specified variance and kurtosis. <a href="fattailrnd.m"></a><br> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <br> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <br> <br> </body></html>