Hierarchical Bayes models for response time data

Psychometrika

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 613-632

  Craigmile, Peter F ^a   Peruggia, Mario ^a   Van Zandt, Trisha ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

extreme observations; long tails; mixture models; reaction times; sequential dependencies; time series modeling; wavelet based trend

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649497600     PISSN: 00333123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11336-010-9172-6     Document Type: Article

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