Multifractal analyses of response time series: A comparative study

Behavior Research Methods

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 928-945

  Ihlen, Espen A F ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Behavior; Multifractal; Multiplicative interaction; Response series; Scaling laws; Variability; Wavelet

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENTROPY; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REACTION TIME; STATISTICAL MODEL; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; ENTROPY; FRACTALS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REACTION TIME; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

EID: 84887165192     PISSN: 1554351X     EISSN: 15543528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13428-013-0317-2     Document Type: Article

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