An Adaptive Inference Strategy: The Case of Auditory Data

Abstract

By way o f an example some of the basic features in the derivation and use o f adaptive inferential methods are demonstrated.
The focus o f this paper is dyadic (coupled) data in auditory and perceptual research. We present: (a) why one
should not use the conventional methods, (b) a derivation of an adaptive method, and (c) how the new adaptive method
works with the example data. In the concluding remarks we draw attention to the work o f Professor George Barnard
who provided the adaptive inference strategy in the context of the Behrens-Fisher problem — testing the equality of
means when one doesn’t want to assume that the variances are equal.