The psi-marginal adaptive method: How to give nuisance parameters the attention they deserve (no more, no less)

Journal of Vision

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Prins, Nicolaas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative forced choice; Bayesian adaptive; Maximum likelihood; Method; Psychometric function; yes no task

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VISION; ALTERNATIVE FORCED CHOICE; ARTICLE; BAYESIAN ADAPTIVE METHOD; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; PSYCHOMETRIC FUNCTION; STATISTICS; YES/NO TASK;

ATTENTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

ALTERNATIVE FORCED CHOICE; BAYESIAN ADAPTIVE METHOD; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; PSYCHOMETRIC FUNCTION; YES/NO TASK;

EID: 84882625294     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/13.7.3     Document Type: Article

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