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标题：Agreement between visual inspection and objective analysis methods: A replication and extension
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作者：Tessa Taylor ; Marc J. Lanovaz
期刊名称：Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis
印刷版ISSN：0021-8855
电子版ISSN：1938-3703
出版年度：2022
卷号：55
期号：3
页码：986-996
DOI：10.1002/jaba.921
语种：English
出版社：University of Kansas - Dept Human Development
摘要：Behavior analysts typically rely on visual inspection of single‐case experimental designs to make treatment decisions. However, visual inspection is subjective, which has led to the development of supplemental objective methods such as the conservative dual‐criteria method. To replicate and extend a study conducted by Wolfe et al. (2018) on the topic, we examined agreement between the visual inspection of five raters, the conservative dual‐criteria method, and a machine‐learning algorithm (i.e., the support vector classifier) on 198 AB graphs extracted from clinical data. The results indicated that average agreement between the 3 methods was generally consistent. Mean interrater agreement was 84%, whereas raters agreed with the conservative dual‐criteria method and the support vector classifier on 84% and 85% of graphs, respectively. Our results indicate that both objective methods produce results consistent with visual inspection, which may support their future use.