Diffusion model analysis with MATLAB: A DMAT primer

Behavior Research Methods

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 61-72

  Vandekerckhove, Joachim ^a,b   Tuerlinckx, Francis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Research Group of Higher Cognition and Individual Differences   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REACTION TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 43249101120     PISSN: 1554351X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BRM.40.1.61     Document Type: Article

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