When the truth hits you between the eyes: A software tool for the visual analysis of single-case experimental data

Methodology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 104-114

  Bulté, Isis ^a,b   Onghena, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Box 3762   (Belgium)

Author keywords

R package; Single case experiments; Software; Visual data analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863687622     PISSN: 16141881     EISSN: 16142241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1614-2241/a000042     Document Type: Article

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