The Effect of Autocorrelation on the Results of Visually Analyzing Data from Single-Subject Designs

American Journal of Occupational Therapy

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 650-655

  Bengali, Minoo K ^a   Ottenbacher, Kenneth J ^b  

^a Ctrl Jersey Rehabilitation Services   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Research design; Single subject research

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 0032159514     PISSN: 02729490     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5014/ajot.52.8.650     Document Type: Article

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