Phase-change lines, scale breaks, and trend lines using Excel 2013.
The development of graphing skills for behavior analysts is an ongoing process. Specialized graphing software is often expensive, is not widely disseminated, and may require specific training. Dixon et al. (2009) provided an updated task analysis for graph making in the widely used platform Excel 2007. Vanselow and Bourret (2012) provided online tutorials that outline some alternate methods also using Office 2007. This article serves as an update to those task analyses and includes some alternative and underutilized methods in Excel 2013. To examine the utility of our recommendations, 12 psychology graduate students were presented with the task analyses, and the experimenters evaluated their performance and noted feedback. The task analyses were rated favorably.
Western Michigan University.
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Deochand
Western Michigan University.
Mack S
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Costello
Western Michigan University.
R Wayne
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Fuqua
D006801:Humans; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface
Excel 2013; graph; phase change; raising zero above abscissa; scale break; single-subject design