Getting more from accuracy and response time data: Methods for fitting the linear ballistic accumulator

Behavior Research Methods

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1095-1110

  Donkin, Chris ^a   Averell, Lee ^a   Brown, Scott ^a   Heathcote, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COGNITION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SAMPLE SIZE; SOFTWARE;

EID: 74849101896     PISSN: 1554351X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BRM.41.4.1095     Document Type: Article

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