Vigilance and signal detection theory: An empirical evaluation of five measures of response bias

Human Factors

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 14-29

  See, Judi E ^a   Warm, Joel S ^b   Dember, William N ^b   Howe, Steven R ^b  

^a Logicon Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SIGNAL DETECTION;

RESPONSE BIAS INDICES; VIGILANCE DETECTION THEORY;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; OBSERVER VARIATION; SIGNAL DETECTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0031105433     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1518/001872097778940704     Document Type: Article

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