Functional adaptive sequential testing

Seeing and Perceiving

Volumn 23, Issue 5-6, 2010, Pages 483-515

  Vul, Edward ^a   Bergsma, Jacob ^a   MacLeod, Donald I A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive testing; Bayesian inference; Psychophysical methods

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE TESTING; BAYESIAN INFERENCE; CONTRAST THRESHOLD; EFFICIENT ESTIMATION; ESTIMATION ALGORITHM; FAST ALGORITHMS; FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIP; GENERIC METHOD; INDEPENDENT VARIABLES; MATLAB TOOLBOXES; MONETARY VALUE; PSYCHOPHYSICAL METHODS; SEQUENTIAL TESTING; SPATIAL FREQUENCY; TRACKING SPEED;

ALGORITHMS; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; ESTIMATION; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; INFERENCE ENGINES; STATISTICAL TESTS;

SUBJECTIVE TESTING;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79957983824     PISSN: 18784755     EISSN: 18784763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/187847510X532694     Document Type: Article

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