Table 10 Characteristics of AB Comparison Units with Disagreement between Indicators

Type Definition Key Data Characteristics number of AB Comparison Units1)
Data-structure-influenced type Cases in which PND, IRD, and Tau-U produced different effect-size estimates due to the actual distribution of the data points Baseline extreme values; overlap between baseline and intervention data points; variability within the intervention phase; coexistence of data points in the improvement and non-improvement directions 9
Classification-criterion boundary type Cases in which effect-size estimates were identical or similar, but the effect-level classifications differed because the classification criteria varied across Indicators Effect-size estimates were similar, but the four-level or three-level classification criteria differed across Indicators 8
The number of AB comparison units in <Table 10> represents typologized cases of index-pair disagreement after removing duplicates, and therefore does not correspond to the simple sum of the pairwise disagreement frequencies reported in <Table 9>.