Visual and statistical analysis in Single-Case Experimental Designs (SCEDs): Best Practice

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Research in psychological sciences have been recently tied methodological rethinking and achievement. At this stand, Single-Case Experimental Designs (SCEDs) or N of 1 designs have been redeveloped. One of the biggest practical challenges of them is data analysis. This challenge may discourage classical and novice researchers in psychology from applying them. The Main purpose of this paper is to introduce the importance, theoretical terms and conditions of SCEDs and describe the visual and statistical analysis of data in numerical examples. Within and between condition analysis can be calculated and interpreted  using many statistical and visual methods. In this paper, these methods have been clearly described along with the interpretable criteria for all of them.

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Clinical Psychology and Personality
Volume 18, Issue 2 - Serial Number 35
September 2020
Pages 183-195

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