Violin Plots as Visual Tools in the Meta-Analysis of Single-Case Experimental Designs
Despite the existence of sophisticated statistical methods, systematic reviews regularly indicate that single-case experimental designs (SCEDs) are predominantly analyzed through visual tools. For the quantitative aggregation of results, different meta-analytical techniques are available, but specif...
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| description | Despite the existence of sophisticated statistical methods, systematic reviews regularly indicate that single-case experimental designs (SCEDs) are predominantly analyzed through visual tools. For the quantitative aggregation of results, different meta-analytical techniques are available, but specific visual tools for the meta-analysis of SCEDs are lacking. The present article therefore describes the use of violin plots as visual tools to represent the raw data. We first describe the underlying rationale of violin plots and their main characteristics. We then show how the violin plots can complement the statistics obtained in a quantitative meta-analysis. The main advantages of violin plots as visual tools in meta-analysis are (a) that they preserve information about the raw data from each study, (b) that they have the ability to visually represent data from different designs in one graph, and (c) that they enable the comparison of score distributions from different experimental phases from different studies. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1b37b1f6050e436dbc941f83ef0dace02023-01-03T09:14:35ZengPsychOpen GOLD/ Leibniz Institute for PsychologyMethodology1614-22412022-09-0118322123810.5964/meth.9209meth.9209Violin Plots as Visual Tools in the Meta-Analysis of Single-Case Experimental DesignsRené Tanious0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5466-1002Rumen Manolov1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9387-1926Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Methodology of Educational Sciences Research Group, KU Leuven, Leuven, BelgiumDepartment of Social Psychology and Quantitative Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, SpainDespite the existence of sophisticated statistical methods, systematic reviews regularly indicate that single-case experimental designs (SCEDs) are predominantly analyzed through visual tools. For the quantitative aggregation of results, different meta-analytical techniques are available, but specific visual tools for the meta-analysis of SCEDs are lacking. The present article therefore describes the use of violin plots as visual tools to represent the raw data. We first describe the underlying rationale of violin plots and their main characteristics. We then show how the violin plots can complement the statistics obtained in a quantitative meta-analysis. The main advantages of violin plots as visual tools in meta-analysis are (a) that they preserve information about the raw data from each study, (b) that they have the ability to visually represent data from different designs in one graph, and (c) that they enable the comparison of score distributions from different experimental phases from different studies.https://meth.psychopen.eu/index.php/meth/article/view/9209single-case experimental designsmeta-analysisviolin plotsvisual analysis |
| spellingShingle | René Tanious Rumen Manolov Violin Plots as Visual Tools in the Meta-Analysis of Single-Case Experimental Designs Methodology single-case experimental designs meta-analysis violin plots visual analysis |
| title | Violin Plots as Visual Tools in the Meta-Analysis of Single-Case Experimental Designs |
| title_full | Violin Plots as Visual Tools in the Meta-Analysis of Single-Case Experimental Designs |
| title_fullStr | Violin Plots as Visual Tools in the Meta-Analysis of Single-Case Experimental Designs |
| title_full_unstemmed | Violin Plots as Visual Tools in the Meta-Analysis of Single-Case Experimental Designs |
| title_short | Violin Plots as Visual Tools in the Meta-Analysis of Single-Case Experimental Designs |
| title_sort | violin plots as visual tools in the meta analysis of single case experimental designs |
| topic | single-case experimental designs meta-analysis violin plots visual analysis |
| url | https://meth.psychopen.eu/index.php/meth/article/view/9209 |
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