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Models for the Statistics and Mechanisms of Response Speed and Accuracy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

Michael J. Wenger
Michael J. Wenger*
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The Pennsylvania State University
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Abstract

Van Breukelen offers a promising method for modeling both response speed and response accuracy. However, the underlying conception of both dependent measures is somewhat flawed, leading the author to conclude that the approach possesses limitations that, under revised assumptions, may not hold. The central misconception, and a set of related misconceptions, is addressed, and it is suggested that this approach holds a good deal of promise for application in the perceptual and cognitive sciences.

Keywords

time limit testsconditional accuracy functionspeed-accuracy tradeoffconditional logistic regressionCox regressionmixed regressionmultilevel analysislatent traitmental rotationmathematical modelsperceptioncognitionspeed-accuracy relations

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Psychometrika , Volume 70 , Issue 2 , June 2005 , pp. 383 - 388
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Copyright © 2005 The Psychometric Society

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