A study of a modified binary search for use in sensitivity testing
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description: A modified binary search routine was developed by Tysver to provide inputs (estimates of parameters of threshold stimulus distributions) to the Probit and Staircase techniques for sensitivity testing. A high speed digital computer was used to provide simulated sensitivity data in order to test the modified search (more specifically, study the parameter estimates generated by the search). The results show that the modified search does not give practical input information to the techniques mentioned above. However, further refinements of extensions to the basic search patterns should yield better estimates of the distribution parameters.
abstract: A modified binary search routine was developed by Tysver to provide inputs (estimates of parameters of threshold stimulus distributions) to the Probit and Staircase techniques for sensitivity testing. A high speed digital computer was used to provide simulated sensitivity data in order to test the modified search (more specifically, study the parameter estimates generated by the search). The results show that the modified search does not give practical input information to the techniques mentioned above. However, further refinements of extensions to the basic search patterns should yield better estimates of the distribution parameters.
author: Hall, Robert Eric, III
language: en_US
date published: 1972-03
date modified: 2026-07-27T20:26:38Z
provider: Naval Postgraduate School
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
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source organization: Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School

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