The effect of noise-induced variance on parameter recovery from reaction times

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dc.contributor.authorVadillo, Miguel A.
dc.contributor.authorGaraizar, Pablo
dc.date.accessioned2026-03-17T16:04:27Z
dc.date.available2026-03-17T16:04:27Z
dc.date.issued2016-03-31
dc.date.updated2026-03-17T16:04:27Z
dc.description.abstractBackground: Technical noise can compromise the precision and accuracy of the reaction times collected in psychological experiments, especially in the case of Internet-based studies. Although this noise seems to have only a small impact on traditional statistical analyses, its effects on model fit to reaction-time distributions remains unexplored. Results: Across four simulations we study the impact of technical noise on parameter recovery from data generated from an ex-Gaussian distribution and from a Ratcliff Diffusion Model. Our results suggest that the impact of noise-induced variance tends to be limited to specific parameters and conditions. Conclusions: Although we encourage researchers to adopt all measures to reduce the impact of noise on reaction-time experiments, we conclude that the typical amount of noise-induced variance found in these experiments does not pose substantial problems for statistical analyses based on model fitting.en
dc.description.sponsorshipSupport for this research was provided by Grant PSI2011-26965 from Dirección General de Investigación of the Spanish Government and Grant IT363-10 from the Basque Governmenten
dc.identifier.citationVadillo, M. A., & Garaizar, P. (2016). The effect of noise-induced variance on parameter recovery from reaction times. BMC Bioinformatics, 17(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/S12859-016-0993-X
dc.identifier.doi10.1186/S12859-016-0993-X
dc.identifier.eissn1471-2105
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14454/5496
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherBioMed Central Ltd.
dc.rights© 2016 Vadillo and Garaizar
dc.subject.otherEx-Gaussian distribution
dc.subject.otherInternet-based experiments
dc.subject.otherModel fitting
dc.subject.otherPsychological experiments
dc.subject.otherRatcliff Diffusion Model
dc.subject.otherReaction time
dc.titleThe effect of noise-induced variance on parameter recovery from reaction timesen
dc.typejournal article
dcterms.accessRightsopen access
oaire.citation.issue1
oaire.citation.titleBMC Bioinformatics
oaire.citation.volume17
oaire.licenseConditionhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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