Displaying and Interpreting Behavioural Data Flashcards
When do you use a line graph?
For continuous measures of behaviour over time.
When do you use a bar graph?
For displaying summary data
When do you use a Standard Celeration Chart?
When staff are competent and when you want to display frequency, duration, latency or inter-response time, when variant scales of nonstandard display make interpretation difficult
When should you use a pie chart?
To show proportion of a total or to divide one into parts.
When do you use a cumulative record?
When you have continuous measures of behaviour over time.
What is an equal interval graph?
You use this for continuous measure of behaviour over time and when variant scales of nonstandard display do not impede data interpretation.
What is the ordinate on a cumulative record?
Reflects the cumulative number of responses over several sessions.
Indicate the position for condition labels.
Should be specific, centred and parallel to the horizontal axis.
When should a scale break be used?
Used in the vertical axis to represent variability that is of social significance.
What does the horizontal axis denote?
Time periods or response opportunities.
What does the vertical axis denote?
Dependent measure (i.e. frequency, count per time etc.).
What is average level?
The mean of the values of the dependent variable. Level is indicated with a horizontal line.
Trend
Is the slope or direction of the data path. Described as increasing, decreasing or zero. Also called celebration on Standard Celeration Charts.
Trend Line
A straight line representing the trend or line of progress.
What is the level?
It is analyzed within a phase(to compare parts or a single phase) or across multiple phases. It is the value on the vertical axis that reflects the central tendency of the data. Should include the range if it is highly variable.
