The generalized Robbins-Monro process and its application to psychophysical experiments for threshold estimation

DOI10.1016/J.JMP.2024.102855MaRDI QIDQ6595389zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Hau-Hung Yang, Yung-Fong Hsu

Publication date 30 August 2024

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/J.JMP.2024.102855

zbMATH Keywords

accelerated stochastic approximationadaptive methodpsychometric functionresponse confidenceresponse timestochastic approximationthreshold estimation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Psychophysics and psychophysiology; perception (91E30)

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