The Prep statistic as a measure of confidence in model fitting

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 16-27

  Ashby, F Gregory ^a   O'Brien, Jeffrey B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BAYES THEOREM; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATA COLLECTION; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 50949084530     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/PBR.15.1.16     Document Type: Article

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