Definition of Signal detection

1. Noun. The detection that a signal is being received.

Exact synonyms: Detection
Generic synonyms: Reception

Lexicographical Neighbors of Signal Detection

signa
signability
signable
signage
signages
signal
signal-to-noise
signal-to-noise ratio
signal-to-noise ratios
signal/noise
signal/noise ratio
signal box
signal boxes
signal caller
signal crayfish
signal detection (current term)
signal detection (psychology)
signal fire
signal flag
signal level
signal light
signal node
signal peptidase
signal peptidase complex
signal peptide
signal peptide p25-subunit IV cytochrome oxidase
signal peptides
signal phrase
signal phrases
signal power

Literary usage of Signal detection

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Risk Assessment for Neurobehavioral Toxicity edited by Bernard Weiss, Jurg Elsner (1997)
"For example, in the signal- detection literature, Jansen et al. ... For example, obtaining scores on signal-detection parameters for the Continuous Visual ..."

2. Assessing the Human Health Risks of Trichloroethylene: Key Scientific Issues by National Research Council (U.S.) (2006)
"2000), examining hearing loss, signal detection behavior, and visual function, demonstrated that Haber's law would overestimate when extrapolating from ..."

3. State of the Art in Probability and Statistics: Festschrift for Willem R by Mathisca de Gunst, Chris Klaassen, A. W. van der Vaart (2001)
"In these studies the original problem of signal detection or goodness of fit reduces ... If the normal shift model originates from, say, a signal detection ..."

4. Strategy Development Workshop For Public Education On Weight And Obesity by DIANE Publishing Company (2004)
"Segmentation Through signal detection The first step in the analytic process was to establish mutually exclusive, homogeneous subgroups. ..."

5. Visualizing Chemistry: The Progress and Promise of Advanced Chemical Imaging by National Research Council (U.S.) (2006)
"signal detection is proportional to the population difference between the two states. Typically, it takes a million molecules to generate a larger ground ..."

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