On the theoretical error bound for estimating psychometric functions

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 919-926

  Dai, Huanping ^a   Richards, Virginia M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cramer Rao bound; Psychometric function

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; HEARING; HUMAN; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 79959697054     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-010-0050-1     Document Type: Article

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