PSY 330 Human Factors
5/1/00
Day 2-17
Calculation of Human Error Probability
uThere are several techniques, will discuss THERP (Swain, 1963)
lStart at top with probability of correct/incorrect action.
lNext act is probability of given the last action.
lThese are conditional probabilities - They are not independent.
lSum of partial error probabilities at bottom is overall error probability.