The EZ diffusion method: Too EZ?

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1218-1228

  Ratcliff, Roger ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; NOTE; PSYCHOMETRY; REACTION TIME; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PSYCHOMETRICS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 59049097605     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/PBR.15.6.1218     Document Type: Article

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