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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jul 7.
Published in final edited form as: Psychophysiology. 2000 May;37(3):347–360.

Table 2.

Proportions of Hits and False Alarms (FA); Measures of Sensitivity (A′) and Bias (B″); Experimental Error Rate (EER); Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE) of the Estimated Difference; and Partition Score (PS) for Each of 36 Techniques When Applied to Stimulus-Locked Data

Ability to discriminate between types of effect
 Accuracy
Technique Hits FA A′ B″ EER RMSE PS
Single-subject procedure, baseline-deviation method
    SS 2.0sd 0.26 0.10 0.70 0.36 0.42 33.66 0.69
    SS 2.5sd 0.33 0.14 0.70 0.29 0.40 32.39 0.68
    SS 3.0sd 0.42 0.16 0.73 0.29 0.37 30.56 0.69
Jack-knife procedure baseline-deviation method
    JK 2.0sd 0.28 0.02 0.80 0.82 0.37 23.39 0.76
    JK 2.5sd 0.29 0.06 0.76 0.57 0.38 21.31 0.77
    JK 3.0sd 0.43 0.04 0.83 0.73 0.30 23.11 0.76
    JK 4.0sd 0.23 0.00 0.79 0.89 0.38 26.66 0.73
    JK 5.0sd 0.40 0.12 0.75 0.39 0.36 38.65 0.63
    JK 6.0sd 0.58 0.14 0.82 0.34 0.28 33.49 0.68
    JK 7.0sd 0.66 0.22 0.81 0.13 0.28 35.93 0.68
    JK 8.0sd 0.29 0.14 0.67 0.26 0.42 54.15 0.55
    JK 9.0sd 0.38 0.18 0.69 0.23 0.40 50.19 0.58
    JK 10.0sd 0.44 0.12 0.77 0.40 0.34 45.26 0.62
Single-subject procedure, relative-criterion method
    SS 10% 0.08 0.07 0.53 0.06 0.50 45.53 0.64
    SS 30% 0.55 0.25 0.74 0.14 0.35 31.26 0.68
    SS 50% 0.69 0.48 0.68 –0.08 0.40 35.16 0.65
    SS 70% 0.91 0.68 0.74 –0.45 0.38 39.37 0.63
    SS 90% 0.97 0.81 0.75 –0.68 0.42 48.18 0.59
Jack-knife procedure, relative-criterion method
    JK 10% 0.48 0.19 0.74 0.24 0.36 30.37 0.70
    JK 30% 0.97 0.60 0.83 –0.78 0.32 33.55 0.68
    JK 50% 1.00 0.73 0.81 –0.95 0.36 36.85 0.66
    JK 70% 1.00 0.80 0.79 –0.94 0.40 41.86 0.63
    JK 90% 0.92 0.74 0.72 –0.45 0.41 51.39 0.58
Jack-knife procedure, fixed-criterion method
    JK 0.2μV 0.73 0.23 0.83 0.05 0.25 28.91 0.71
    JK 0.4μV 0.95 0.39 0.88 –0.67 0.22 28.81 0.72
    JK 0.6μV 0.97 0.50 0.86 –0.79 0.26 29.94 0.71
    JK 0.8μV 0.99 0.42 0.89 –0.92 0.22 30.98 0.71
    JK 1.0μV 0.97 0.44 0.87 –0.79 0.24 33.77 0.68
Single-subject procedure, regression-based method
    SS 1df 0.67 0.09 0.88 0.46 0.21 19.68 0.78
    SS 2Rdf 0.67 0.12 0.86 0.35 0.22 16.84 0.81
    SS 2Udf 0.74 0.17 0.86 0.15 0.22 14.70 0.83
    SS 4df 0.71 0.19 0.84 0.14 0.24 19.35 0.78
Jack-knife procedure, regression-based method
    JK 1df 0.80 0.12 0.91 0.20 0.16 21.40 0.78
    JK 2Rdf 0.82 0.08 0.93 0.33 0.13 17.28 0.81
    JK 2Udf 0.86 0.04 0.95 0.52 0.09 18.60 0.80
    JK 4df 0.92 0.10 0.95 –0.10 0.09 19.03 0.79

Note: SS = single-subject procedure; JK = jack-knife procedure; xsd = baseline-deviation method; x% = relative-criterion method; xμV = fixed-criterion method; and xdf = regression-based method.