Distributional assumptions and observed conservatism in the theory of signal detectability

DOI10.1016/0022-2496(91)90043-SzbMath0763.92014MaRDI QIDQ1184247

Laurence T. Maloney, Ewart A. C. Thomas

Publication date: 28 June 1992

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Psychology (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

noiseS3estimationcontoursignal detectionGaussian distributionsreceiver operating characteristicdecision ruleconservative observersdistributional informationempirically observable partisosensitivity curveLaplacian distributionslocation TSDlocation-scale TSDsobserver's behaviourproblem of uniquenessradical observerssensory criterion rule

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Signal theory (characterization, reconstruction, filtering, etc.) (94A12) Detection theory in information and communication theory (94A13) Statistical aspects of information-theoretic topics (62B10) Psychophysics and psychophysiology; perception (91E30)

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