Estimating parameters of the diffusion model: Approaches to dealing with contaminant reaction times and parameter variability

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 438-481

  Ratcliff, Roger ^a   Tuerlinckx, Francis ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; REACTION TIME; STATISTICAL MODEL;

HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0036731339     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03196302     Document Type: Article

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