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  • Clinical Psychology
  • Educational Psychology

Background:

  • Evidence-based interventions require reliable treatment effect size quantification.
  • Single-case experimental designs (SCEDs) are crucial in clinical and educational settings.
  • Existing methods for effect size calculation may be sensitive to data characteristics.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To compare the performance of four recently developed effect size measures for SCEDs.
  • To identify which measures are robust to common data complexities.
  • To provide guidance on selecting appropriate effect size measures.

Main Methods:

  • Monte Carlo simulations were used to generate AB design data.
  • Data included confounding variables: serial dependence, linear/curvilinear trends, and heteroscedasticity.
  • Two treatment effect types were simulated: level and slope change.
  • Four effect size measures were evaluated: nonoverlap of all pairs (NAP), percentage of nonoverlapping data (PND), slope and level change (SLC), and percentage of nonoverlapping corrected data (PNDc).

Main Results:

  • Data characteristics significantly impact the performance of effect size measures.
  • NAP and SLC demonstrated adequate performance in the presence of serial dependence or changing data variability.
  • Data correction steps enhanced the robustness of NAP and SLC against linear trends.
  • PNDc and SLC were also robust to linear trends after data correction.

Conclusions:

  • Visual inspection of graphed data is essential for selecting appropriate effect size measures.
  • NAP and SLC are recommended for their robustness in analyzing complex SCED data.
  • Statistical effect size measures can effectively complement visual analysis and professional judgment in evaluating treatment effectiveness.