John A Swets
Biographic Data
| ID | 1660023 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John A Swets |
| GIVEN NAMES | John A |
| FAMILY NAME | Swets |
| SIGNATURE | SWETS J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Buckingham Browne & Nichols |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1954 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Psychological Science Can Improve Diagnostic Decisions
John A. Swets, Robyn M. Dawes, and John Monahan BBN Technologies (emeritus), Cambridge, Massachusetts; Radiology Department, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and School of Law, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
The science of choosing the right decision threshold in high-stakes diagnostics
The science of choosing the right decision threshold in high-stakes diagnostics
Many diagnostic tasks require that a threshold be set to convert evidence that is a matter of degree into a positive or negative decision. Although techniques of decision analysis used in psychology help one select the particular threshold that is appropriate to a given situation and purpose, just the concept of adjusting the threshold to the situation is not appreciated in many important practical arenas. Testing for the human immunodeficiency v…
Measuring the Accuracy of Diagnostic Systems
Diagnostic systems of several kinds are used to distinguish between two classes of events, essentially "signals" and "noise." For them, analysis in terms of the "relative operating characteristic" of signal detection theory provides a precise and valid measure of diagnostic accuracy. It is the only measure available that is uninfluenced by decision biases and prior probabilities, and it places the performances of diverse systems on a common, easi…
Design and evaluation issues in an experiment on teaching thinking skills
Design and evaluation issues in an experiment on teaching thinking skills
Teaching thinking skills
Teaching thinking skills
A course was developed to teach cognitive skills that apply to learning and intellectual performance independently of subject matter, stressing observation and classification, reasoning, critical use of language, problem solving, inventiveness, and decision making. With pretests and posttests, it was taught experimentally to over 400 Venezuelan seventh graders, whose classes were matched to those of a control group. Although evaluation of such a …
Indices of discrimination or diagnostic accuracy: Their ROCs and implied models
Form of empirical ROCs in discrimination and diagnostic tasks: Implications for theory and measurement of performance
Central factors in auditory frequency selectivity
Decision processes in perception.
About 5 years ago, the theory of statistical decision was translated into a theory of signal detection. Although the translation was motivated by problems in radar, the detection theory that resulted is a general theory for, like the decision theory, it specifies an ideal process. The generality of the theory suggested to us that it might also be relevant to the detection of signals by human observers. Beyond this, we were struck by several analo…
A decision-making theory of visual detection.
A decision-making theory of visual detection.
Decision processes in perception.
About 5 years ago, the theory of statistical decision was translated into a theory of signal detection. Although the translation was motivated by problems in radar, the detection theory that resulted is a general theory for, like the decision theory, it specifies an ideal process. The generality of the theory suggested to us that it might also be relevant to the detection of signals by human observers. Beyond this, we were struck by several analo…
Central factors in auditory frequency selectivity
Teaching thinking skills
Teaching thinking skills
A course was developed to teach cognitive skills that apply to learning and intellectual performance independently of subject matter, stressing observation and classification, reasoning, critical use of language, problem solving, inventiveness, and decision making. With pretests and posttests, it was taught experimentally to over 400 Venezuelan seventh graders, whose classes were matched to those of a control group. Although evaluation of such a …
Indices of discrimination or diagnostic accuracy: Their ROCs and implied models
Form of empirical ROCs in discrimination and diagnostic tasks: Implications for theory and measurement of performance
Measuring the Accuracy of Diagnostic Systems
Diagnostic systems of several kinds are used to distinguish between two classes of events, essentially "signals" and "noise." For them, analysis in terms of the "relative operating characteristic" of signal detection theory provides a precise and valid measure of diagnostic accuracy. It is the only measure available that is uninfluenced by decision biases and prior probabilities, and it places the performances of diverse systems on a common, easi…
Design and evaluation issues in an experiment on teaching thinking skills
Design and evaluation issues in an experiment on teaching thinking skills
The science of choosing the right decision threshold in high-stakes diagnostics
The science of choosing the right decision threshold in high-stakes diagnostics
Many diagnostic tasks require that a threshold be set to convert evidence that is a matter of degree into a positive or negative decision. Although techniques of decision analysis used in psychology help one select the particular threshold that is appropriate to a given situation and purpose, just the concept of adjusting the threshold to the situation is not appreciated in many important practical arenas. Testing for the human immunodeficiency v…
Psychological Science Can Improve Diagnostic Decisions
John A. Swets, Robyn M. Dawes, and John Monahan BBN Technologies (emeritus), Cambridge, Massachusetts; Radiology Department, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and School of Law, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
Psychology (13 works) · Cognitive psychology (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Mathematics (4 works) · Mathematics education (4 works) · Medical education (4 works) · Pedagogy (4 works) · Education and Critical Thinking Development (3 works) · Neuroscience (3 works)