Statistical Measures for Workload Capacity Analysis
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-2012
Abstract
A critical component of how we understand a mental process is given by measuring the effect of varying the workload. The capacity coefficient (Townsend & Nozawa, 1995; Townsend & Wenger, 2004) is a measure on response times for quantifying changes in performance due to workload. Despite its precise mathematical foundation, until now rigorous statistical tests have been lacking. In this paper, we demonstrate statistical properties of the components of the capacity measure and propose a significance test for comparing the capacity coefficient to a baseline measure or two capacity coefficients to each other.
Repository Citation
Houpt, J. W.,
& Townsend, J. T.
(2012). Statistical Measures for Workload Capacity Analysis. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 56 (5), 341-355.
https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/psychology/11
DOI
10.1016/j.jmp.2012.05.004
