A hierarchical approach for fitting curves to response time measurements

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1201-1208

  Rouder, Jeffrey N ^a   Tuerlinckx, Francis ^b   Speckman, Paul ^a   Lu, Jun ^c   Gomez, Pablo ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LEARNING; PSYCHOMETRY; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEMANTICS; STATISTICS;

DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEMANTICS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 59049092526     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/PBR.15.6.1201     Document Type: Article

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