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The biggest drawbacks are known as order effects, and they are caused by exposing the subjects to multiple treatments. Order effects are related to the order that treatments are given but not due to the treatment itself. For example, scores can decrease over time due to fatigue, or increase due to learning. In taste tests, a dry wine may get a higher rank if it was preceded by a dryer wine and a lower rank if preceded by a sweeter wine.
Associated Data
The details of situations in which this across-tier comparison is valid for ruling out threats to internal validity are more complex than they may appear. We will explore these issues extensively after we sketch the historical development of multiple baseline designs and criticisms of nonconcurrent multiple baselines. In general, in a concurrent multiple baseline design across any factor, the across-tier analysis is inherently insensitive to coincidental events that are limited to a single tier of that factor. Under these conditions, the experimental rigor of concurrent multiple baselines is identical to nonconcurrent multiple baselines; coincidental events that contact a single tier cannot be detected by an across-tier analysis. The problem of tier-specific coincidental events can be reduced by selecting tiers that differ on only a single factor (e.g., participants, settings, behaviors) and are as similar as possible on that factor. For example, there is less room for participant-level coincidental events if all participants reside in a single group home than if they reside in different group homes in different states.
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Repeated Measures Designs: Benefits, Challenges, and an ANOVA Example
If this requirement is not met and a single extraneous event could explain the pattern of data in multiple tiers, then replications of the within-tier comparison do not rule out threats to internal validity as strongly. This critical requirement is mainly addressed by the lag between phase changes in successive phases. The time lag must be sufficiently long so that no single event could produce potential treatment effects in more than one tier. Other design features that contribute to the isolation of tiers such that any single extraneous variable is unlikely to contact multiple tiers can also strengthen the independence of tiers. Every multiple baseline design in which potential treatment effects are observed in some but not all tiers demonstrates that tiers are not always equally sensitive to interventions.
Managing the Challenges of Repeated Measures Designs
These approaches can be implemented at the design, methods, and interpretation and reporting levels of research (see Table Table11). Both concurrent and nonconcurrent multiple baseline designs also afford the same across-tier comparison; both can show a potential treatment effect after a certain number of baseline sessions in one tier and a lack of effect after that same number of sessions in another tier. We can strongly argue that all tiers contact testing and session experience during baseline because we schedule and conduct these sessions. However, an across-tier comparison is not definitive because testing or session experience could affect the tiers differently. For example, in a multiple baseline across settings, the settings could present somewhat different demands. If session experience exerted a small degree of influence on the DV, an effect might be observed in settings where the behavior is more likely, but not in settings where the behavior is less likely.
What Is Concurrent Validity?
Merging typically occurs after the statistical analysis of the numerical data and qualitative analysis of the textual data. For example, in a multistage mixed methods study, Tomoaia-Cortisel and colleagues used multiple sources of existing quantitative and qualitative data as well as newly collected quantitative and qualitative data (Tomoaia-Cortisel et al. 2013). The researchers examined the relationship between quality of care according to key patient-centered medical home (PCMH) measures, and quantity of care using a productivity measure.
However, we can never ensure that any two contexts or any two session times are not subject to unique events during the study. The bottom line is that the experimenter can never know whether a coincidental event has contacted only a single tier of a concurrent multiple baseline and, therefore, whether it is possible for the across-tier comparison to detect this threat. One area that has, in the past, been particularly controversial is the experimental rigor of concurrent versus nonconcurrent multiple baseline designs; that is, the degree to which each can rule out threats to internal validity. This controversy began soon after the first formal description of nonconcurrent multiple baseline designs by Hayes (1981) and Watson and Workman (1981). However, the specific issues in this controversy have never been thoroughly identified, discussed, and resolved; and instead a consensus emerged without the issues being explicitly addressed.
The narrative provides intragroup comparisons of the results from the scales about beliefs that are supported by text from the qualitative database. Each of the six sections of the results contain quantitative scores with intergroup comparisons among the four groups studied, that is, academic researchers, academic biostatisticians, consultant biostatisticians, and “other” stakeholders and quotations from each group. In a participatory framework, the focus is on involving the voices of the targeted population in the research to inform the direction of the research. Often researchers specifically seek to address inequity, health disparities, or a social injustice through empowering marginalized or underrepresented populations.
Two case studies
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Integration at the design level—the conceptualization of a study—can be accomplished through three basic designs and four advanced mixed methods frameworks that incorporate one of the basic designs. Basic designs include (1) exploratory sequential; (2) explanatory sequential; and (3) convergent designs. In sequential designs, the intent is to have one phase of the mixed methods study build on the other, whereas in the convergent designs the intent is to merge the phases in order that the quantitative and qualitative results can be compared.
Independent Measures
The across-tier comparison is valuable primarily when it suggests the presence of a threat by showing a change in an untreated tier at approximately the same time (i.e., days, sessions, or dates) as a potential treatment effect. The lack of change in untreated tiers should be interpreted only as weak evidence supporting internal validity given the plausible alternative explanations of this lack of change. Concurrent and nonconcurrent multiple baseline designs address maturation in virtually identical ways through both within- and across-tier comparisons. For both types of comparisons, addressing maturation begins with an AB contrast in a single tier.
If either of these assumptions are not valid for a coincidental event, then the presence and function of that event would not be revealed by the across-tier analysis. We are not pointing to flaws in execution of the design; we are pointing to inherent weaknesses. Poor execution can certainly worsen these problems, but good execution cannot eliminate them. The across-tier comparison of concurrent multiple baseline designs is less certain and definitive than it may appear. Although the across-tier comparison may detect some coincidental events; it cannot be assumed to detect them all.
However, as Hayes (1985) pointed out, even with the most rigorous care in experimental design, we can never give two individuals the same experiences outside of our experimental sessions. Likewise, in a multiple baseline across settings, selecting settings that tend to share extraneous events would make the across-tier analysis more powerful than would selecting settings that share few common events. For example, two rooms in the same treatment center would share more coincidental events than a room in a treatment center and another room at home.
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