The psychometric function: I. Fitting, sampling, and goodness of fit

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 63, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1293-1313

  Wichmann, Felix A ^a,b   Hill, N Jeremy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 0035525265     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03194544     Document Type: Article

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