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Velicer, Wayne F.; Brick, Leslie Ann D.; Fava, Joseph L.; Prochaska, James O. – Multivariate Behavioral Research, 2013
Testing Theory-based Quantitative Predictions (TTQP) represents an alternative to traditional Null Hypothesis Significance Testing (NHST) procedures and is more appropriate for theory testing. The theory generates explicit effect size predictions and these effect size estimates, with related confidence intervals, are used to test the predictions.…
Descriptors: Smoking, Statistical Significance, Confidence Testing, Effect Size
Fry, Mary L. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
A comparison between Child-Centered Group Play Counseling (CCGPC), a psychoeducational group and a non-therapeutic control group resulted in three of four hypotheses being supported. Participants included 79 second and third graders, with one fourth grader, from seven elementary schools. The children had behavioral and social skills difficulties…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Child Behavior, Behavior Problems, Interpersonal Competence
Fanning, Fred; Newman, Isadore – 1974
Based on the assumption that inferential statistics can make the operant conditioner more sensitive to possible significant relationships, regressions models were developed to test the statistical significance between slopes and Y intercepts of the experimental and control group subjects. These results were then compared to the traditional operant…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, Behavior Change, Behavior Modification, Behavior Theories