Fitting Wald and ex-Wald distributions to response time data: An example using functions for the S-PLUS package

Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 678-694

  Heathcote, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

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EID: 13844271273     PISSN: 07433808     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03206550     Document Type: Article

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