Various indices which have been proposed as measures of detectability (for unequal variance normal distributions of signal and nonsignal) are discussed. It is argued that the best measure is an index, denoted by <2 a , which is defined as v2 times the orthonormal distance from the origin of the normal deviate graph to the straight line receiver operating characteristic. It is shown that
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