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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Mar 21.
Published in final edited form as: J Appl Behav Anal. 2013 Aug 12;46(3):582–591. doi: 10.1002/jaba.60

Table 2.

Group means or medians for each outcome measure and the results of ANOVAs and post hoc tests comparing study groups.

Group means or medians a ANOVA results a (X > No Voucher) b

Abstinence &
Training
Reinforcement
Training
Reinforcement
No
Reinforcement
F or
H
df p
value
Abstinence &
Training
Reinforcement
Training
Reinforcement
Overall steps achieved c 91 ** 88 ** 10.5 13.4 2 .001 .71 .70

Typing steps achieved c 49 ** 48 * 9 12.2 2 .002 .70 .69

Keypad steps achieved c 42 *** 42 *** 3 17.9 2 < .001 .74 .73

Total hours attended d 106 ** 148 ** 36 14.6 2 < .001 .71 .73

Steps completed per hour in workplace d 0.64 0.52 0.61 0.4 2 n.s. .52 .51

Timings initiated per hour in workplace d 36 *** 33 29 13.1 2 .001 .74 .64

Characters typed per timing initiated 63 63 63 0.0 2,115 n.s. .53 .52

Characters typed per min. in workplace 38 ** 34 27 6.8 2,115 .002 .73 .64

Overall accuracy (% correct) d 97.8 * 97.3 96.0 9.2 2 .01 .67 .67

Typing accuracy (% correct) d 97.1 * 97.2 95.4 7.7 2 .02 .65 .66

Keypad accuracy (% correct) d 98.2 97.9 97.2 3.7 2 n.s. .61 .61

Note. Asterisks indicate statistically significant differences from the No Reinforcement group with post hoc tests (* p < .05, ** p < .01, *** p < .001).

The Abstinence & Training Reinforcement and Training Reinforcement groups were not different from one another on any of these outcome measures. n.s. = not statistically significant.

a

Means and one-way ANOVAs (F values) are reported for ratio scale outcome measures that passed Levene’s Median Test, while medians and Kruskal-Wallis ANOVAs (H values) are reported for ordinal measures or those that did not pass Levene’s Median Test.

b

The probability that a random member of the Abstinence & Training Reinforcement or Training Reinforcement group performed better than a random member of the No Reinforcement group.

c

Ordinal outcome measure.

d

Did not pass Levene’s Median Test.