Detection Theory

Detection Theory: A User's Guide, 3rd Edition, is a textbook that introduces detection theory as an analytical tool for data involving choices where performance is imperfect. It explains how to convert subjective judgments, such as perceptions and memories, into quantitative data ready for modeling.

The volume covers detection and discrimination measurement, decision criteria evaluation, and the utility of receiver operating characteristics. It presents both one-dimensional and multidimensional models alongside an integrated treatment of threshold and nonparametric approaches.

Designed for graduate students and researchers working in courses or independently, the text serves as a self-contained reference connecting theoretical models to popular discrimination paradigms.