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Alcala-Quintana, Rocio; Garcia-Perez, Miguel A. – Psychological Methods, 2004
Variants of adaptive Bayesian procedures for estimating the 5% point on a psychometric function were studied by simulation. Bias and standard error were the criteria to evaluate performance. The results indicated a superiority of (a) uniform priors, (b) model likelihood functions that are odd symmetric about threshold and that have parameter…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Computation, Error of Measurement, Bayesian Statistics