ABSTRACT
A difficult task confronts the investigator who is interested in estimating a distribution of psychological response times if no strong assumptions are made about the functional form of the distribution. The primary problem is choosing a function which accurately maps the data onto an estimate of the distribution. The problem can be made more difficult by the presence of random variables such as motor reaction time which may be contaminating the response time. Furthermore, even with an a priori reasonable approach to the problem, the precision of the estimate cannot be assumed to be equivalent in all empirical contexts.
