On the Psychophysical Law and Estimation Procedures in Psychophysical Scaling
- 1 June 1963
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Psychometrika
- Vol. 28 (2) , 145-160
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02289612
Abstract
A general formulation of the power law is presented which has two special features: (1) negative exponents are admissible; and (2) the log law is a special limiting case. Estimation procedures, which provide joint estimates of the exponent and the absolute threshold, are derived for the direct ratio scaling methods. A solution is provided for the averaging problem for ratio production and bisection scaling, two methods generating observations on the physical scale, and Monte Carlo methods are used to evaluate the resulting estimators.Keywords
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