[visionlist] announcement of new book on modeling psychophysical data

[Ken Knoblauch]

We would like to announce the publication of the book

"Modeling Psychophysical Data in R" (2012) Kenneth Knoblauch & Laurence T.
Maloney, Springer,  ISBN: 978-1-4614-4474-9.


Many of the commonly used methods for modeling and fitting psychophysical
data are special cases of statistical procedures of great power and
generality, notably the Generalized Linear Model (GLM). This book
illustrates how to fit data from a variety of psychophysical paradigms using
modern statistical methods and the statistical language R. The paradigms
include signal detection theory, psychometric function fitting,
classification images and more. In two chapters, recently developed methods
for scaling appearance -- maximum likelihood difference scaling and maximum
likelihood conjoint measurement -- are examined. The authors also consider
the application of mixed-effects models to psychophysical data.

R is an open-source  programming language that is widely used by
statisticians and is seeing enormous growth in its application to data in
all fields. It is interactive, containing many powerful facilities for
optimization, model evaluation, model selection, and graphical display of
data. The reader who fits data in R can readily make use of these methods.
The researcher who uses R to fit and model his data has access to most
recently developed statistical methods. This book does not assume that the
reader is familiar with R, and a little experience with any programming
language is all that is needed to appreciate this book. There are large
numbers of examples of R in the text and the source code for all examples is
available in an R package MPDiR available through R.

Sample pages can be viewed at

http://www.springer.com/statistics/computational+statistics/book/978-1-4614-
4474-9

(but also see http://mpdir.r-forge.r-project.org/)



Ken Knoblauch & Larry Maloney

-- 
Ken Knoblauch
Inserm U846
Stem-cell and Brain Research Institute
Department of Integrative Neurosciences
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