William J. McGill
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American psychologist, author, academic administrator, and 16th president of Columbia University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, William James McGill was an American psychologist, author, and academic administrator. He was the 16th president of Columbia University and the 3rd chancellor of the University of California San Diego.
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- Multivariate information transmission (1954) (870)
- The relation between information and variance analyses (1956) (254)
- Neural counting mechanisms and energy detection in audition (1967) (209)
- The general-gamma distribution and reaction times☆ (1965) (156)
- A study of the near-miss involving Weber’s law and pure-tone intensity discrimination (1968) (148)
- Pure-tone intensity discrimination and energy detection. (1968) (127)
- Random fluctuations of response rate (1962) (68)
- Multiplication noise in the human visual system at threshold: 1. Quantum fluctuations and minimum detectable energy (1982) (61)
- Loudness and reaction time: A guided tour of the Listener's private world (1961) (60)
- A statistical description of verbal learning (1952) (37)
- The Slope of the Loudness Function: A Puzzle (1974) (37)
- Serial effects in auditory threshold judgments. (1957) (34)
- The German Enlightenment and the rise of historicism (1976) (30)
- Neural Counting and Photon Counting in the Presence of Dead Time (1976) (30)
- The University and the State. (1977) (26)
- The von Richthofen Sisters: The Triumphant and the Tragic Modes of Love (1974) (25)
- On the equivalence of detection probabilities and well-known statistical quantities. (1970) (22)
- Multiplication noise in the human visual system at threshold (1982) (22)
- Multiplication noise in the human visual system at threshold. 3. The role of non-Poisson quantum fluctuations. (1982) (19)
- Electrical responses to two clicks: A simple statistical interpretation (1951) (17)
- Applications of Information Theory to Psychology: A Summary of Basic Concepts, Methods, and Results, Fred Attneave. Henry Holt (1959), vii + 120 pp., $3.75 (1960) (14)
- Alerting signals and detection in a sensory network (1995) (13)
- Time Past, Time Present, Time Future (1989) (12)
- A community in conflict: Frankfurt society in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries (1975) (11)
- Variations on Marill's detection formula. (1968) (8)
- The Crucible of History: Arthur Miller's John Proctor (1981) (7)
- A unique approach to stimulus detection theory in psychophysics based upon the properties of zero-mean Gaussian noise (1989) (7)
- The Roots of Policy: Kaunitz in Italy and the Netherlands, 1742–1746 (1968) (6)
- Poets' Meeting: George Herbert, R.S. Thomas, and the Argument with God (2003) (4)
- The Roots of Policy: Kaunitz in Vienna and Versailles, 1749-1753 (1971) (4)
- Rubber scales and partial quantification (1989) (4)
- The Year of the Monkey: Revolt on Campus 1968-69 (1982) (3)
- Polynomial psychometric functions in audition (1968) (2)
- Non-Poisson nature of the effective noise in the visual system near threshold (A) (1978) (2)
- Viewpoint: Public Control of Science Is Not the Answer (1977) (2)
- Applications of information theory in experimental psychology. (1957) (1)
- The Scaler's Siege Perilous. (1959) (1)
- Solubility of Paraffin Wax in Oil (1927) (1)
- In Search of a Unicorn: Maria Theresa and the Religion of State (1980) (1)
- The application of intelligence tests in the college of pharmacy, university of Michigan (1923) (1)
- What Lies Ahead for Our Universities. (1971) (1)
- The Year Of The Monkey (1982) (1)
- The Electrometric Titration of Alkaloids: Application of the Quinhydrone Electrode to Alkaloidal Titrations * (1925) (1)
- Voices in the Cathedral: The Chorus in Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral (1980) (1)
- Promotions and Appointments (1966) (1)
- The Calling: George Herbert, R.S. Thomas and the Vocations of Priest and Poet (2000) (1)
- Universities in danger: The United States Office for Civil Rightscontra Columbia University (1972) (1)
- Herbert Butterfield and the Idea of Liberty (1971) (0)
- Richard C. Atkinson: President-Elect of AAAS. (1988) (0)
- Prolegomenon to the Development of a History Curriculum. (1969) (0)
- Mathematics: The other world. (1960) (0)
- Book reviews (1960) (0)
- A Prolegomenon to Humanistic Learning. (1974) (0)
- The Determination of Hydrogen Ions By W. Mansfield Clark. Second Edition, 1923, 480 pp. Williams and Wilkins Co., Baltimore, Md. $5.00 (1924) (0)
- The American Past Presented: The Limits of Historical Drama (1985) (0)
- Electrometric assay methods for crude drugs. II (1923) (0)
- Recollections of a University President: Facing the Fires of September (1974) (0)
- Protection of professional life in a litigation-prone society. (1977) (0)
- Exact psychometric functions for a wideband envelope detector (1985) (0)
- The Crisis of Money and Identity: A discussion with three university presidents (1972) (0)
- William Styron’s Nat Turner and Religion (1980) (0)
- History as Interpretation and as Argument (1973) (0)
- What these magi thought. (1962) (0)
- Enno E. Kraehe. Metternich's German Policy. Volume 2, The Congress of Vienna, 1814–1815. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1983. Pp. xi, 443 (1985) (0)
- Equality and Excellence: The Challenge of the 1970's in American Higher Education. (1971) (0)
- Bismarck: Germany from Blood and Iron (1977) (0)
- A Priest/Poet'S Christmas in Wales: R. S. Thomas and the Incarnation (2000) (0)
- Fred Simmons Keller (1899–1996): Obituary. (1997) (0)
- Heat of Solution of Paraffin Wax (1927) (0)
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