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Jarrold, Christopher; Brock, Jon – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2004
Studies of autism typically adopt a factorial matched-groups design aimed at eliminating nonspecific factors such as mental retardation as explanations of performance on experimental tasks. This paper reviews the issues involved in designing such studies and interpreting their results and suggests that the best approach to matching may be to…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Autism, Statistical Analysis, Researchers