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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Dec 4.
Published in final edited form as: Ear Hear. 2011 Mar-Apr;32(2):198–208. doi: 10.1097/AUD.0b013e3181f4dfe9

Table 2.

Average results from experiment 1

Metric CI
CI
NH
CI1 CI3 CI8 CI24 CI52 Average Average
Lateral bias (deg) -2.2 4.2 -3.2 4.4 -0.9 0.5 ± 3.6 -0.0 ± 2.4
Lateral precision error (deg; C = 33) 17.7 23.4 25.8 22.8 24.5 22.8 ± 3.1 13.6 ± 2.1
Lateral target-response correlation coefficient 0.92*** 0.86*** 0.82*** 0.88*** 0.78*** 0.85*** 0.95***

Absolute lateral bias (deg; C = 12) 7.7 9.7 3.2 12.4 5.9 7.8 ± 3.5 4.3 ± 0.8
Lateral precision error ±20° (deg; C = 27) 16.9 23.2 22.2 23.9 25.7 25.7 ± 3.3 11.0 ± 3.2
Absolute lateral error (deg; C = 29) 15.2 20.2 20.6 20.4 20.1 19.3 ± 2.3 11.2 ± 1.6
Lateral RMS error (deg; C = 27) 16.5 20.3 21.8 20.5 24.5 20.7 ± 2.9 12.4 ± 2.2

Quadrant error (%; C = 49%) 30.0 26.1 48.0 33.3 47.2 36.9 ± 10.1 17.1 ± 5.6
Polar bias (deg) -3.0 11.9 9.3 2.0 -10.6 1.9 ± 9.1 0.1 ± 5.9
Polar precision error (deg; C = 31) 30.4 28.5 29.3 28.3 28.8 29.0 ± 0.8 21.9 ± 2.4
Polar target-response correlation coefficient 0.56*** 0.55*** 0.21** 0.45*** 0.21** 0.34*** 0.72***

Front-back confusions (%(N); C = 50%) 13.0***(89) 20.3***(64) 34.0**(85) 25.3***(79) 45.0(98) 29.1***(395) 12.8***(539)
Level-response correlation coefficient -0.39*** -0.48*** -0.22** -0.44*** -0.35*** -0.33*** -0.07*

See Methods section for details on the metrics; Individual listener data = means across all positions; Average = mean ± SD across the listeners; C = chance rate; N = number of responses considered in the calculations; NH = data calculated basing on results from Majdak, Goupell & Laback (2010);

*, **, and *** Level of significance (0.05, 0.01, and 0.001, respectively)