Abstract
Quality-control charts can be particularly useful in identifying treatment effects and patterns of behaviors in single-subject behavior-analytic experiments that cannot be determined by visual inspection of their graphs. Using an example from the behavior analysis literature the quality-control charts identified the presence of treatment effects across phases as well as the presence of trends within and between phases. The ease of their calculations suggest use of them by behavior analysts whenever the effects of particular interventions are questionable.
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Sideridis, G.D., Greenwood, C.R. Evaluating treatment effects in single-subject behavioral experiments using quality-control charts. J Behav Educ 6, 203–211 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02110233
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