Introduction of Single Subject Designs as New Experimental Designs. (I). Their practical methods and comparison with group comparison designs.
10.3777/jjsam.43.28
- VernacularTitle:新しい実験計画法としての単一被験者法の紹介 （Ｉ） その適用方法と群間比較法との相違
- Author:
Shigeru KUWATA
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
single subject designs;
individual analysis;
coincidence;
group comparison designs;
steady state data
- From:Journal of the Japan Society of Acupuncture and Moxibustion
1993;43(1):28-35
- CountryJapan
- Language:Japanese
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Abstract:
The present-paper introduced the logics and practical methods of single subject designs by comparing them with group comparison designs. It was pointed out that the single subject designs assert that controlling variables for a subject's behavior should be identified using individual analysis. Those characteristics were summarized as (a) acquisition of steady state data resulting from repeated measurement of target behaviors, and (b) identification of the functional relationship between experimental variables and dependent variables by successive comparison between baseline and experimental condition. The methods, advantages and problems in the principal single subject designs, such as AB design, reversal designs, multiple baseline design and alternating treatments design were explained. Several problems in the group comparison designs were pointed out and the possibilities for applying the single subject designs to research on acupuncture were discussed.
