Inference for psychometric functions in the presence of nonstationary behavior

Journal of Vision

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1-19

  Fründ, Ingo ^a   Haenel, N Valentin ^a   Wichmann, Felix A ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Inference; Nonstationary behavior; Psychometric function

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BEHAVIOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; HUMAN; LEARNING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BAYES THEOREM; BEHAVIOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; HUMANS; LEARNING; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 80052628473     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/11.6.16     Document Type: Article

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