The Robustness and Applicability of Speed-Accuracy Decomposition, a Technique for Measuring Partial Information

Psychological Methods

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 95-120

  Smith, Roderick W ^a,b   Kounios, John ^c   Osterhout, Lee ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d University of Pennsylvania ^*

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EID: 0346674090     PISSN: 1082989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1082-989X.2.1.95     Document Type: Article

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