Quantifying Stimulus Discriminability: A Comparison of Information Theory and Ideal Observer Analysis

DOI10.1162/0899766053429435zbMath1173.94302OpenAlexW2120057264WikidataQ36097310 ScholiaQ36097310MaRDI QIDQ5706662

Eric E. Thomson, William B. Jun. Kristan

Publication date: 21 November 2005

Published in: Neural Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1162/0899766053429435

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Neural networks for/in biological studies, artificial life and related topics (92B20) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to information and communication theory (94-02) Measures of information, entropy (94A17)

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