Combining speed and accuracy to assess error-free cognitive processes

Psychometrika

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 405-425

  Glickman, Mark E ^a,d   Gray, Jeremy R ^b   Morales, Carlos J ^c  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Hospital 152   (United States)

Author keywords

Competing risks; Reaction times; Speed accuracy tradeoff; Time to event model; Working memory tasks

Indexed keywords

EID: 28844488505     PISSN: 00333123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11336-002-0999-3     Document Type: Review

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