"Elementary Signal Detection Theory" by Thomas D. Wickens
OxfUni Press | 2002 | ISBN: 0195092503 9780195092509 9780195357806 | 277 pages | PDF | 12 MB
The goal of this book is to introduce the reader to the most important aspects of signal-detection theory. This book is a primer on signal detection theory, useful for both undergraduates and graduate students. An interesting finding of this work is that decisions are involved even in the simplest of discrimination tasks--say, determining whether or not a sound has been heard (a yes-no decision).
Detection theory has been applied to a host of varied problems (for example, measuring the accuracy of diagnostic systems, survey research, reliability of lie detection tests) and extends far beyond the detection of signals.
Contents Preface
1 The signal-detection model
2 The equal-variance Gaussian model
3 Operating characteristics and the Gaussian model
4 Measures of detection performance
5 Confidence ratings
6 Forced-choice procedures
7 Discrimination and identification
8 Finite-state models
9 Likelihoods and likelihood ratios
10 Multidimensional stimuli
11 Statistical treatment
Appendix: A summary of probability theory
References
Index
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