Additive noise, Weibull functions and the approximation of psychometric functions

Vision Research

Volumn 42, Issue 20, 2002, Pages 2371-2393

  Mortensen, U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DENSITY; NOISE; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEURONS; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOMETRICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0036753599     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(02)00195-5     Document Type: Article

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