Alan Taylor's Home Page

Alan's PhD thesis was on the problem of observer inconsistency, unique noise, and common noise. He helped develop Group Operating Characteristic Analysis, and All Combinations Analysis as ways of dealing with observer inconsistency. Alan was the Research and Statistical Advisor in the Department of Psychology at Macquarie University, Australia.

Sadly, Alan passed away in 2023.

Thesis

• PhD: Auditory psychophysics in birds: The effects of unique noise on sensitivity.

  • Abstract

  • Download as pdf from VUW's research archive

Papers

• Taylor, A., Boven, R., and Whitmore, J. (1991) Reduction of unique noise in the psychophysics of hearing by group operating characteristic analysis. Psychological Bulletin, 109(1), 133–146.
  • Abstract

Alan's other webpage

Browse Alan's former PSYSTAT website in the Internet Archive.

Last updated 23 Aug 2026