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THE signal-detection theory propounded by Tanner and Swets1 has proved immensely valuable and illuminating in a wide range of psychological contexts2. It first gained popularity because of two signal merits: it accounted for the previously unexplained forms of the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve, and it enabled a numerical measure (d′) to be put to the discriminability of stimuli.
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HAMMERTON, M., ALTHAM, P. A Non-parametric Alternative to d′. Nature 234, 487–488 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/234487a0
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