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Are Unshifted Distributional Models Appropriate for Response Time?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

Jeffrey N. Rouder*
Affiliation:
University of Missouri-Columbia
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Request for reprints should be sent to Jeffrey N. Rouder, 210 McAlester Hall, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA. E-mail: jeff@banta.psyc.missouri.edu

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Original Paper
Copyright
Copyright © 2005 The Psychometric Society

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Footnotes

This research is supported by NSF grants SES - 0095919 and 0351523 to J. Rouder, D. Sun, and P. Speckman. Further support came from University of Missouri Research Council, Ministry of Education of Spain, and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. I thank Francis Tuerlinckx for helpful discussions.

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