Signal Detection Theory Applications. Dissertation abstracts international series b 1973 33 4535 4536. These events are called hits and their probability of occurrence is the hit rate.
A hit in this situation would be if you thought you heard a knock and there actually was a knock. But it also offers a way to analyze many different kinds of decision problems. By applying signal detection theory researchers can eliminate the results of response bias.
Signal detection theory provides a precise language and graphic notation for analyzing decision making in the presence of uncertainty.
Doctoral dissertation university of michigan 1972. Signal detection theory has wide application both in humans and animals. Abstract receiver operating characteristic roc curves describe observer performance in the detection of small noiselimited signals such as the image of a 2 mm lucite bead against a background of. There are many practical situations in which signal detection can be used.
