Quantifying Temporal Distributions of Self-Injurious Behavior: Defining Bouts Versus Discrete Events

American Journal on Mental Retardation

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-8+77

  Kroeker, Rose ^a,b,c   Touchette, Paul E ^a,b   Engleman, Laszlo ^a   Sandman, Curt A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Appl Neuro Devmtl Res Institute   (United States)

^c Fairview Developmental Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGITATION; ARTICLE; AUTOMUTILATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALADJUSTMENT; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; STEREOTYPY; SURVIVAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MENTAL RETARDATION; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVATION; PROBABILITY; RESIDENTIAL FACILITIES; SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0347320853     PISSN: 08958017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1352/0895-8017(2004)109<1:QTDOSB>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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