Assessing the evidence for response time mixture distributions

Behavior Research Methods

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 706-724

  Dixon, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Distribution mixtures; Distribution shape; Response time

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; LEARNING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOLOGICAL REFRACTORY PERIOD; REACTION TIME; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ATTENTION; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; REFRACTORY PERIOD, PSYCHOLOGICAL; REVERSAL LEARNING; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 84865627109     PISSN: 1554351X     EISSN: 15543528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13428-012-0244-7     Document Type: Article

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