<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><!DOCTYPE article  PUBLIC '-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN'  'http://www.docbook.org/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd'><article><articleinfo><title>FAQ/sigdet</title><revhistory><revision><revnumber>22</revnumber><date>2015-04-14 15:29:31</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>21</revnumber><date>2013-03-08 10:17:25</date><authorinitials>localhost</authorinitials><revremark>converted to 1.6 markup</revremark></revision><revision><revnumber>20</revnumber><date>2007-07-10 12:53:24</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>19</revnumber><date>2007-07-10 12:53:09</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>18</revnumber><date>2007-07-10 12:52:43</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>17</revnumber><date>2007-07-10 12:50:29</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>16</revnumber><date>2007-07-10 12:50:20</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>15</revnumber><date>2007-07-10 11:20:29</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>14</revnumber><date>2007-07-10 11:20:05</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>13</revnumber><date>2007-07-05 12:27:53</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>12</revnumber><date>2007-07-05 12:27:43</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>11</revnumber><date>2007-01-25 16:06:35</date><authorinitials>PeterWatson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>10</revnumber><date>2006-07-27 11:20:30</date><authorinitials>pc0082.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>9</revnumber><date>2006-07-26 15:32:44</date><authorinitials>pc0102.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>8</revnumber><date>2006-07-26 15:29:33</date><authorinitials>pc0102.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>7</revnumber><date>2006-07-26 11:24:16</date><authorinitials>pc0082.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>6</revnumber><date>2006-07-26 11:18:53</date><authorinitials>pc0082.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>5</revnumber><date>2006-07-26 11:15:15</date><authorinitials>pc0082.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>4</revnumber><date>2006-07-26 11:12:23</date><authorinitials>pc0082.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>3</revnumber><date>2006-07-26 11:11:36</date><authorinitials>pc0082.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>2</revnumber><date>2006-07-26 11:07:28</date><authorinitials>pc0082.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>1</revnumber><date>2006-07-26 11:03:18</date><authorinitials>pc0082.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk</authorinitials></revision></revhistory></articleinfo><section><title>Computing dprimes and betas</title><para>Dprimes and Betas may be computed in SPSS using the probit function. The UCLA statistics department give <ulink url="http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/faciliti/facilities/statistics/dprime.htm">further details.</ulink> They suggest values upto 2 are typical dprime values. </para><para>A table showing dprime values for true positives and false alarm combinations <ulink url="https://lsr-wiki-02.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/statswiki/FAQ/sigdet/statswiki/FAQ/sigdet/effecttab#">is available.</ulink> </para><itemizedlist><listitem><para>Also available by typing sigdet at a UNIX prompt </para></listitem><listitem><para>Excel syntax available <ulink url="http://psy.ucsd.edu/~kang/sdt/sdt.htm">here</ulink>.  </para></listitem></itemizedlist><para>[CUT AND PASTE SPSS SYNTAX BELOW INTO A SYNTAX WINDOW AMENDING DATA AS REQUIRED]  </para><screen><![CDATA[* Computes Dprimes and Betas for signal detection theory
* amend data input as required
SET FORMAT F10.5.
DATA LIST FREE /
HI FN FP CN.
]]><![CDATA[
BEGIN DATA
9 1 3 7
6 4 2 8
END DATA.
]]><![CDATA[
IF (HI EQ 0) HI = 0.5.
IF (FN EQ 0) FN = 0.5.
IF (FP EQ 0) FP = 0.5.
IF (CN EQ 0) CN = 0.5.
]]><![CDATA[
COMPUTE HIP = HI / (HI + FN).
COMPUTE FPP = FP / (FP + CN).
]]><![CDATA[
COMPUTE DP = PROBIT(HIP) - PROBIT(FPP).
COMPUTE BETA = EXP(-0.5*(PROBIT(HIP)**(2))) / EXP(-0.5*(PROBIT(FPP)**(2))).
LIST VARIABLES= DP BETA HI FN FP CN.]]></screen><para>* Multiple invocations of the macro in the same interactive session will produce the following note: </para><para>&gt;The macro name specified on the DEFINE command duplicates the name of a previously defined macro.  This instance will take precedence. </para><para>This warning does not indicate a problem and may be ignored. </para></section></article>