The Minimum Difference That Can Be Detected Between Two Stimuli

question 4

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The minimum difference that can be detected between two stimuli is referred to as the differential threshold.

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Definitions:

Skewness

A measure of the asymmetry of the probability distribution of a real-valued random variable about its mean.

5-number Summary

A descriptive statistics tool that consists of the minimum, first quartile, median, third quartile, and maximum of a data set.

Z-score

A statistical measure that describes a value's relationship to the mean of a group of values, measured in terms of standard deviations from the mean.

Standard Deviations

A gauge for evaluating how much the data values vary or diverge from each other in a dataset.