Evaluation of maximum-likelihood estimators in nonintensive auditory psychophysics

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 867-876

  Saberi, Kourosh ^a,b   Green, David M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENTROPY; HEARING; HUMAN; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

AUDITORY PERCEPTION; ENTROPY; HUMANS; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 0031284860     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03205504     Document Type: Article

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