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ERIC Number: EJ734044
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2005-Oct
Pages: 12
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-006X
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Empirically Supported Treatments or Type I Errors? Problems with the Analysis of Data from Group-Administered Treatments
Baldwin, Scott A.; Murray, David M.; Shadish, William R.
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, v73 n5 p924-935 Oct 2005
When treatments are administered in groups, clients interact in ways that lead to violations of a key assumption of most statistical analyses-the assumption of independence of observations. The resulting dependencies, when not properly accounted for, can increase Type I errors dramatically. Of the 33 studies of group-administered treatment on the empirically supported treatments list, none appropriately analyzed their data. The current authors provide corrections that can be applied to improper analyses. After the corrections, only 12.4% to 68.2% of tests that were originally reported as significant remained significant, depending on what assumptions were made about how large the dependencies among observations really are. Of the 33 studies, 6-19 studies no longer had any significant results after correction. The authors end by providing recommendations for researchers planning group-administered treatment research.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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