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Peer reviewedLerman, Dorothea C.; Iwata, Brian A. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1993
Independent descriptive (correlational) and functional (experimental) analyses, conducted with six subjects with profound mental retardation exhibiting self-injurious behavior (SIB), found that the descriptive analysis was useful in identifying the extent to which SIB was related to social versus nonsocial contingencies but was limited in its…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Disorders, Correlation, Experiments
Marion, Sarah DeBoard; Touchette, Paul E.; Sandman, Curt A. – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 2003
This study with 45 institutionalized individuals with mental retardation and self injurious behavior (SIB) calculated conditional probability using sequential analysis techniques. It found that successive episodes of self-injury were sequentially dependent and this association was not related to frequency or rate of occurrence. The best predictor…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Disorders, Children, Incidence
