PEST: Efficient Estimates on Probability Functions
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of AmericaPublished 1 April 1967
M. M. Taylor, C. Douglas Creelman
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An adaptive procedure for rapid and efficient psychophysical testing is described. PEST (Parameter Estimation by Sequential Testing) was designed with maximally efficient trial-by-trial sequential decisions at each stimulus level, in a sequence which tends to converge on a selected target level. An appendix introduces an approach to measuring test efficiency as applied to psychophysical testing problems.
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