Comparison of adaptive psychometric procedures motivated by the Theory of Optimal Experiments: Simulated and experimental results

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 315-326

  Remus, Jeremiah J ^a   Collins, Leslie M ^a  

^a Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

PSYCHOMETRIC ASSESSMENTS; STAIRCASE METHODS; THEORY OF OPTIMAL EXPERIMENTS;

PSYCHOLOGY COMPUTING;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SOUND DETECTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORY;

BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 38049033541     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2816567     Document Type: Article

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