Determination of optimal data placement for psychometric function estimation: A computer simulation

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 106, Issue 4 I, 1999, Pages 1969-1976

  Lam, Chan F ^a   Dubno, Judy R ^b   Mills, John H ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 0032851397     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.427944     Document Type: Article

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