Detecting false positives in multielement designs: Implications for brief assessments

Behavior Modification

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 531-552

  Bartlett, Sara M ^a   Rapp, John T ^a   Henrickson, Marissa L ^a  

^a ST CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

alternating treatments design; brief analysis; differentiated; false positives; multielement design; undifferentiated

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; RESEARCH DESIGN; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 80053623087     PISSN: 01454455     EISSN: 15524167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0145445511415396     Document Type: Article

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