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ERIC Number: EJ1340627
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022
Pages: 11
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ISSN: ISSN-0021-8855
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Agreement between Visual Inspection and Objective Analysis Methods: A Replication and Extension
Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, v55 n3 p986-996 Sum 2022
Behavior analysts typically rely on visual inspection of single-case experimental designs to make treatment decisions. However, visual inspection is subjective, which has led to the development of supplemental objective methods such as the conservative dual-criteria method. To replicate and extend a study conducted by Wolfe et al. (2018) on the topic, we examined agreement between the visual inspection of five raters, the conservative dual-criteria method, and a machine-learning algorithm (i.e., the support vector classifier) on 198 AB graphs extracted from clinical data. The results indicated that average agreement between the 3 methods was generally consistent. Mean interrater agreement was 84%, whereas raters agreed with the conservative dual-criteria method and the support vector classifier on 84% and 85% of graphs, respectively. Our results indicate that both objective methods produce results consistent with visual inspection, which may support their future use.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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