Hi,

2008/8/21 Mario Maiworm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> Hi,
> I want to fit some psychophysical data with cumulative gaussians. There is
> quite a convenient toolbox for matlab called 'psignifit' (formerly known as
> 'psychofit'). It allows the lower bound of the sigmoid to vary slightly
> from
> zero, aswell as the upper bound to vary from one. with these two free
> parameters, the fitted function is less sensitive to noisy data and
> outliers.

you might also check the function psyfun.2asym from the psyphy package
http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/psyphy/index.html


best


VĂ­ctor H




>
> Apart from advertising this toolbox I want to ask for possibilities in R to
> fit psychometric functions, as I would rather use R than matlab. Is there a
> comparable package specific for psychophysics in R? otherwise: which
> function would be a good choice? Can I have functionality equal to
> 'psignifit' with glm() from MASS. I would be grateful for some suggestions
> of people who have experience in sigmoid-fitting in R.
> Best,
> Mario.
>
>
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